▲ 339 ▼ Apple's A20 Pro shatters Geekbench 7 single-core record — 2nm chip beats desktop Intel Core i9 and AMD Ryzen 9 by up to 32% (www.tomshardware.com) submitted 3 days ago* by KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 180 comments fedilink hide all child comments A20 Pro vs Intel Ultra 7 Series 3
[–] curiousaur@reddthat.com 55 points 3 days ago (5 children) Linux is inevitable permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 51 points 3 days ago (3 children) Apple will fight it with everything they can. Latest MacOS27 hides linux partitions from the bootpicker so it is blocked in firmware. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 50 points 3 days ago Not exactly, the bootpicker just won't show partitions that are not flagged as bootable. This is a departure from previous versions, that would check to see whether partitions were bootable without looking at the flag, and took a little bit of investigating to figure out this undocumented behavior, but it is an easy fix: https://asahilinux.org/2026/06/progress-report-7-1/ permalink fedilink source parent [–] kalleboo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago If Apple didn't want to allow Linux to boot they would have removed the functionality they specifically put into the firmware to allow Linux to boot. permalink fedilink source parent [+] yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [+] MrSmith@lemmy.world -32 points 3 days ago Slop permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 51 points 3 days ago (3 children) Apple will fight it with everything they can. Latest MacOS27 hides linux partitions from the bootpicker so it is blocked in firmware. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 50 points 3 days ago Not exactly, the bootpicker just won't show partitions that are not flagged as bootable. This is a departure from previous versions, that would check to see whether partitions were bootable without looking at the flag, and took a little bit of investigating to figure out this undocumented behavior, but it is an easy fix: https://asahilinux.org/2026/06/progress-report-7-1/ permalink fedilink source parent [–] kalleboo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago If Apple didn't want to allow Linux to boot they would have removed the functionality they specifically put into the firmware to allow Linux to boot. permalink fedilink source parent [+] yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 50 points 3 days ago Not exactly, the bootpicker just won't show partitions that are not flagged as bootable. This is a departure from previous versions, that would check to see whether partitions were bootable without looking at the flag, and took a little bit of investigating to figure out this undocumented behavior, but it is an easy fix: https://asahilinux.org/2026/06/progress-report-7-1/ permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kalleboo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago If Apple didn't want to allow Linux to boot they would have removed the functionality they specifically put into the firmware to allow Linux to boot. permalink fedilink source parent