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Linux for iPod?
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I highly doubt it on Apple, usually everything but the Macs are really locked down.
Even the macs, but people managed to circumvent those better
They're not very locked down. Even the apple silicon stuff allows other operating systems, apple just doesn't tell how to make them work.
I’ve only installed Linux on one Mac (MacBook Pro 2012) and it was easier than on my Microsoft Surface Go 1 to be honest.
Not just that — Even if you exploited some bug to run unsigned code, it’s highly unlikely you could find all the drivers needed for that hardware. There’s not a lot of motivation from the open source community to support a tightly controlled platform where few users could even attempt to run it.