Asking more out of curiosity than any intention to actually implement, but... if I were to put Linux on an M4 macbook, how difficult it be to undo that, remove Linux and restore the original operating system?
In other words, just how tightly do Apple lock down their laptops?
Allen but one of the bad ones, woooo
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