Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, has previously ruled out official support for natively booting alternate operating systems like Windows or Linux. While a number of M1 components are shared with Apple’s mobile chips, the non-standard chips made it challenging to create Linux drivers to get Ubuntu running properly.Īpple hasn’t designed its M1 Macs with dual-boot or Boot Camp in mind. The team at Corellium have detailed exactly how they managed to get Ubuntu running, and it’s a good in-depth read if you’re interested in the details.
The modified version of Ubuntu boots into the regular user interface and includes USB support.
Corellium, a security firm that offers a virtualized version of iOS for security testing, has successfully ported Ubuntu over to M1 Macs and released a tutorial for others to follow. A new Linux port allows Apple’s M1 Macs to run Ubuntu for the first time.
