I wanted to see how Fable could do at getting Linux running natively on my M4 Mac mini. Turns out pretty well: it patched the Asahi installer and m1n1 bootloader to support M4, and created a workflow where it could build, push, and debug kernels with no interaction on my part after the initial setup. It's now happily running headless with ssh access, and hopefully will have video soon after a USB DisplayLink adapter arrives. (No HDMI/Thunderbolt yet).

I don't know for a fact that earlier models wouldn't be able to do that, but I figure if they could we would have heard about it by now.

My Fable today shipped a stable and app store compatible linux as an mac app.

Opus 4.8 started that project but even with rounds and rounds of feedback and gpt 5.5 quality assurance subagents it stayed buggy / unstable as hell.

the version now seems pretty stable. an ai within that app is humming along quite fine for hours without any crashes.