If so how is it? I’m heavily considering grabbing an M1 and trying it out if it’s in a state where I can be productive.

For context, I use an M1 for work and it’s awful only thanks to macOS. The hardware is excellent though. I can run an army of containers for hours, I can have OBS running in the background if I need to quickly record something, and I can have 2-3 JetBrains IDEs running without skipping a beat.

But I truly cannot comfortably use macOS in my personal space. I don’t really want to go into my gripes with macOs; suffice to say it’s not a route I’m willing to explore any further.

That said, I’ve tried to keep up with Asahi Linux but have not seen very much feedback from those who are using it.

If you are using it I’d love to hear some feedback on what you like or dislike about it. Does all your hardware work? Do all your standard linux applications work?

Edit: I dont really know how crossposting works in the Fediverse. Sorry if this thread shows up twice

  • jennifilm@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been using it for the last week and really enjoy it - I’m on an m1 air and asahi is so much snappier than macOS, which is saying something because it still sings!

    There’s a few key hardware features still missing - mic, speaker, and the thunderbolt port (so hdmi and external displays) that are preventing me from driving it fully because I do a lot of presentations at work, but it’s quick enough to boot into mac when I need to.

    Occasionally there’s something that doesn’t want to run on arm architecture, but there’s usually an alternative - and it sounds like 4k paging is close.

    Give it a shot! I’m invested cos I wanna hear more people’s take on it 😅

  • sibloure@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I installed it on a M1 MacBook and everything seemed to work fine except I think it had trouble resuming from sleep and I had to force restart it every time. This was over a year ago so I’m not sure if this may still be an issue with Asahi, and I no longer have it to test further.

  • Molecular0079@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    While I am eagerly looking towards the day Linux just works on the M1 / M2 myself and I can plop Arch Linux into a shiny new Macbook Pro, I would caution that if this is a work laptop you should not be wiping the OS without careful consideration and perhaps approval from your IT department. I don’t know how chill your work environment is but a lot of companies have data security measures in place that prevent confidential info from leaking out if your laptop ever gets stolen. You should also consider whether it will impact your ability to work with other people when they’re using software or other work pipelines that aren’t compatible with Linux.