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> The direction they’ve chosen is actually similar to what Raspberry Pi has chosen: You can boot alternate OSes, but the primary focus is Raspberry Pi foundations own needs and everything else comes secondary.

If I put a SD card with ex. Alpine Linux into a pi, it'll boot into Alpine Linux. If I put a SD card with Alpine Linux into a Pinebook Pro, it'll boot into... Manjaro.

>>yjftsj+(OP)
I don't think the Raspberry Pi does UEFI boot by default? You'd have to put in a SD card with Raspberry Pi-specific boot support, including proprietary blobs.

>>zozbot+O1
Yes, that's true; my point is that the pi will happily boot whatever, unlike the Pinebook Pro which has a default bootloader on internal storage that ignores the SD card. So a distro/OS has to add the pi-specific bootloader to their SD image, and that's a pain, but they can't do anything to make the PBP work, because the machine won't even pay attention to their SD image.

EDIT: Actually I guess the Pi 4 added an onboard flash chip with an early bootloader, but I can't figure out if it impacts the boot order or changes how hard SD boot is: https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/raspberr...

>>yjftsj+O2
I haven't seen U-Boot in a while (I use levinboot on PBP), but if it has LCD and USB support already on PBP, then the user should be able to just self-erase the bootloader from eMMC using a command or two and then be free to boot from SD card or USB. Or just erase it from the booted default Manjaro.