Chrome OS? No, thank you. I'll stay with macOS and keep hoping for the Asahi Linux dream

If you are on a M1 or M2 chip you can live the dream _now_ already and install Asahi (Asahi Fedora Remix or Asahi Alarm https://asahi-alarm.org/ - which I am a maintainer of). It works really great (daily driving it since 4 years now...) M3 support is coming soon as well...

	▲	hmokiguess 30 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		No way! I'm on M1 Pro, may be making the move finally ... how's the peripheral support these days? I use a Thunderbolt Display with the Studio Display. Any other particular things I should know?

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jjtheblunt 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

you can run Arch proper in UTM.app on macos...utm is available on the app store or open source, and wraps the apple silicon hypervisor.framework.

it works fantastic magic. i had dual booted Asahi for a year or so, but really for no good reason once i realized UTM existed.

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hmokiguess 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm aware of it, though I would like to have a native solution with GPU acceleration and all the hardware benefits.

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Scarbutt 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Do you use x64 emulation with UTM? If so, how's the performance?

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jjtheblunt 4 hours ago | parent [-]

No. It's all native Arm. In the UTM app, when creating a new VM, there's an option to say it's going to be "Linux" (generically at that point), which exposes a checkbox which allows you to specify use of Apple Silicon hypervisor.framework, and specifically _not_ x86 emulation.

I use hypervisor.framework, never use x86 emulation, and the result is great. Tested with both Fedora for ARM and Arch for ARM (perhaps CachyOS's bundling of Arch works there, but i did it lower level because i'm an old nerd).

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traderj0e 4 hours ago | parent [-]

This is what I thought, but idk why the literature about this is never clear that it's ARM Linux only.

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jjtheblunt 3 hours ago | parent [-]

which literature? (that question posed, i had to sleuth around to disambiguate oft repeated misinformation before figuring this all out)

	▲	traderj0e 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't have it in front of me, have just seen conflicting info on a lot on articles about virtualization on Mac. Well wait, UTM's official website clearly says it does support x86 if you're ok with the emu performance hit. Is that wrong?

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bitpush 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why?

	▲	allthetime 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Apple portable hardware is unparalleled. Linux is what runs the internet. For now, my old gaming PC runs as a Linux server hosting all my dev services and home lab projects and my MacBook is where I work with them and build apps that consume them. It would be nice to have the server setup mirrored on a laptop I could take places with me.
	▲	hmokiguess 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I try to stay away from Google if I can, I know Apple isn't perfect either but I am more aligned with them despite it.