Yesterday Craig Federighi gave a video conference interview with John Gruber and Marques Brownlee on The Talk Show. Obviously, all the questions revolved around the news presented on Monday at the Keynote at WWDC 2020. Many focused on the news of the week, the change from Intel to ARM processors.
And Federighi confirmed what we all suspected: with the new ARM chips, the Boot Camp. In future Bionic processors it will only run macOS Big Sur (and upcoming nicknames). Neither Windows, in any of its versions, nor Linux. Was any innocent in the room hopeful?
Craig Federighi, Apple's chief software officer, yesterday gave an interview to John Gruber on The Talk Show. Federighi usually does a series of interviews after WWDC and this year he has done the same as well. He also spoke with Marques Brownlee, a famous North American tech YouTuber.
Federighi commented on some new iOS features and also answered several questions from Apple fans. I speak of Crab saying it now has a new compact user interface. This new user interface keeps the background visible when using Siri, however the user cannot interact with the background.
He also talked about macOS Big Sur saying that it is macOS 11. He said it is not macOS 10.16., As the changes are too deep and deserve a new numbering. He also said that macOS Big Sur is a great new platform created for Intel's transition to ARM architecture chips.
He noted that Big Sur brings new design changes after a long time. He assured that he is waiting for the comments and reactions of users when using the new interface.
Goodbye to Windows and Linux on future ARM Macs
During the part of the podcast that has been dedicated to virtualization in the new Apple computers that arrive with ARM processors, Federighi has commented that, as they showed in the presentation, "of course" that they are aware that there are many developers who use Windows and Linux on Macs, and has made it clear that what they showed in the keynote was Linux virtualization under macOS Big Sur.
The Apple executive has mentioned that they have developed a new version of the virtualization framework on all Macs (including new Macs). On the fact of only being able to use macOS nativelyFederighi commented that "these hypervisors are very efficient, so the need for direct boot should not be a concern."
With the goodbye of Intel's x86 architecture, therefore, goodbye to Boot Camp already an era in which Windows has been installed natively. Goodbye is also said to being able to install Linux, which has been unofficially run on Macs from the time of PowerPC until now, thanks to distributions such as Debian for PowerPC.
It was logical to expect that one of the most significant consequences in the Apple Silicon project would be the final goodbye to being able to run Windows or Linux on a Mac. And not for now, because macOS must be able to run on a Mac with an Intel processor, but a day a few years from now where a future macOS will only work on ARM Macs, and on that day, the popular ones will cease to exist Hackintosh.