It’s not. Asahi is the project that figured out how to get m-series Mac’s running Linux. The code they write gets ported out to the rest of the Linux distros too. Asahi has fedora running on these.
You can use whatever you want. Asahi fedora Linux is just the latest thing for these Macs in Linux land. It launches there and finds its way out to the rest of Linux.
Macbook = Vendor Lock-In as Hardware.
No? You can run Linux on it just fine. They aren’t going to help you do that but they aren’t stopping you either.
Provided it’s an older one with an Intel CPU.
Up to the M3 is supported thank to the asahi project.
Yeah, which means you can’t just use any Linux you want… sounds almost like, I don’t know, a vendor lock-in.
It’s not. Asahi is the project that figured out how to get m-series Mac’s running Linux. The code they write gets ported out to the rest of the Linux distros too. Asahi has fedora running on these.
You can use whatever you want. Asahi fedora Linux is just the latest thing for these Macs in Linux land. It launches there and finds its way out to the rest of Linux.