So now it's speculating about dropping support for things that have been supported for <checks> 11 years, as 'evidence' of this apparent conspiracy to prevent Linux booting?
If any of this were a deliberate attempt to prevent it, surely they'd just not allow users to disable the secure boot option.
It's not my term. You claimed that Apple are deliberately preventing Linux booting because they don't want people to use it. The dictionary definition of conspiracy is . My point is that you have no evidence the lack of Linux support is anything more than a lack of support - and as I've said, there are multiple points of evidence to show that it is just a lack of support, rather than a deliberate attempt to prevent Linux on a Mac.
Sellers of what?
By chance are you referring to when Apple discovered 90% of the "genuine Apple" products sold on Amazon.com were in fact counterfeits? https://www.forbes.com/sites/amitch...one-chargers-on-amazon-are-fake/#7c42da8a5b07
I would say you "seem" determined to spread a conspiracy theory at all cost. This has nothing to do with whether you agree that Apple can or should prevent Linux on a Mac. For what it's worth I don't think it's worth their time to bother preventing it honestly. But regardless of that - you haven't shown any evidence that this is a deliberate action, and yet you keep insisting it is.
Again - you imply that they deliberately set out to prevent you from running Linux. Should all advancements in technology be constrained to using components with device drivers in every single available operating system?
And that's your choice to make.
I didn't bring up Microsoft. Someone else gave Microsoft's tactics (blocking Linux) as some kind of "precedent" for what Apple is claimed to have done, and I have repeatedly tried to highlight how the situations are different.
Here is a copy of some of the letters sent to sellers on Amazon:
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We contacted amazon seller support on whether older discontinued apple products are impacted by this policy change and unfortunately they said yes… And also all conditions are affected, new - used - refurbished. Only the RENEWED program participants are not impacted but you have to proivde proof of $2.5M of Apple purchases every 90 days or $10M a year and so unless you are a big player you wont be able to qualify for the RENEWED program…
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Dear Seller,
This is Craig, the associate working with you on this case. I want to thank you for contacting us with your concerns in regards to discounted APPLE products affected by this. Thank you for replying back to this case to clarify another question.
All products under the brand Apple will be affected by this, including products that are no longer manufactured or even sold by Apple store. This is due to the agreement made between Amazon and Apple. Only products that Renewed Sellers are offering as part of the Amazon Renewed program are not impacted by this change. For more information on Amazon Renewed:
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In exchange for Amazon selling Apple TV and some other items, Apple demanded Amazon stop any sellers that were not a part of Apple's "renew" program. That program is part dictates what the items can be sold for. As a result I don't but Apple products on Amazon. You haven't actually refuted anything I have said, but continue on in your determine defense of Apple. Don't keep wasting your time because I can see for myself exactly what Apple is about. The fact that you think it is okay, doesn't make it right for me. At the end of the day, I can walk away from Apple, and because of the way they act, I don't use any of their services. I like MacOS well enough, but at the end of the day there are some fantastic Linux machines and distros out there to be enjoyed and can do as much, if not more for me.
[doublepost=1557948652][/doublepost]Just for the record everyone, I am a She, not a He. Gender Female.
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Yep, no matter how others argue it, the OP can run Linux on the internal drive prior to the 2018 MBP and now he can't. The cause, the T2 chip.
We've been getting into deep weeds debating the causes and reasons, but for the OP, its moot as you said because he was willing to give apple nearly 3,000 for a laptop but that laptop no functions like prior models and does not work for his needs.
@Mendota, you may have stated this somewhere, but what distro are you using? As I said, I got a second drive my Thinkpad, and install Linux on that drive (keeping the primary drive for windows) Based on my research, Pop_OS is a good choice for my hardware and so far I've been happy with it
I have been using Mint, but lately I have become very interested again in KDE Neon, with Plasma. I am thinking of just buying a KDE Slimbook, and going with that. On my main desktop, I run Ubuntu in a virtual machine, and that is fine, except I am not always sitting at my desktop, and want to enjoy portable Linux. The PineBook I have has been fun, but I would like a bit more power for development.