| ▲ | treesknees 17 hours ago |
| Why not run it natively with Asahi Linux? |
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| ▲ | Everdred2dx 17 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Well limiting to specifically OP's example (M4 Mac), Asahi doesn't support it yet. :( |
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| ▲ | crossroadsguy 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Is Asahi installed side by side on a mac? You pick it at boot? And how “install and just use” it is? |
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| ▲ | neobrain 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Is Asahi installed side by side on a mac? Yes, the installer automatically (and reliably) resizes partitions for you. A minimum of about 70 GB for macOS is needed (anything lower is still possible but unsupported). > You pick it at boot? There's a default choice that will boot. > And how “install and just use” it is? Probably one of the smoothest Linux installs I've had in 10 years or so, since you just run the installer from macOS instead of flashing ISO files to an USB drive. |
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| ▲ | Wowfunhappy 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Asahi Linux doesn't support the M3 or M4. That said, I'd be curious why OP doesn't consider Asahi on M2 to be a good option. AFAIK the only thing missing at this point is Thunderbolt and USB-C display output (HDMI out works fine). |
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| ▲ | zenmac an hour ago | parent [-] | | There are a few draw backs. dnf for arm linux doesn't support Tor Browser yet!! Power saving was quite bad when I tried a few month back. When on sleep mode, it drains more battery than on MacOS sleep mode. There are a few other compile/transpile bugs here and there.... but I'm rooting for the it!!! Hopefully they can get sorted out soon. |
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| ▲ | truncate 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| IIRC, there bunch of random things that still don't work -- no USB-C output, webcam, audio and if I've to guess suspend/resume is probably not rock solid either. The only benefit is that you get to use Linux, but then you may lose on actually getting work done without worrying about these issues. The new UI is inferior, but can still get things done. |
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| ▲ | neobrain 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | This information is very dated. Webcam/audio work fine nowadays, and suspend/resume have never had issues that I recall. IME the feature support page is very accurate (no hidden gotchas like "technically it works but it breaks after sleep"). USB-C output is indeed not working but actively making progress (so actively that some of the related patches have been sent to the kernel mailing list and merged this very week). | |
| ▲ | Wowfunhappy 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Webcam and audio both work now. I can't speak to how solid suspend/resume is because I haven't actually used it--I just follow the project--but I wouldn't necessarily assume it's flaky. |
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| ▲ | ohdeargodno 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Asahi is only supporting M1, and partly M2 I believe. M3 was enough of a change that there are no drivers for it. |
