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
That’s what Apple is all about “Good hardware very bad software”
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.
Sorry if I wasn’t clear in the post, this is strictly a personal use notebook.
I have a Mac Mini M1 and Asahi Linux works very well on it. Pretty much everything I use already has an aarch64 version. The IDE I was using doesn’t, so I switched to the JetBrains equivalent, which does work on ARM.
The one big letdown is that displayport doesn’t work. Only HDMI does. But going by your other comments you’re using a macbook rather than a mac mini, so that might not matter to you.
It’s been a few months since I tried it on my Mac Mini M1, but HDMI audio didn’t work last I tried. It was kind of a big deal since I use it as a TV PC.
I purchased an M1 MBP with the intention of eventually installing Asahi on it, but honestly I’m satisfied with macOS when it comes to my work needs. I primarily use my laptop to write code and watch occasionally watch anime, and it does that great. Still have a lot of complaints about how locked-down macOS is, but it is what it is
It works alright but there are still issues. My biggest gripe with it is that sleeping doesn’t really work. I will often close my laptop and then come back to a dead laptop the next day because the battery drained all night.
That happens to me with macOS too so 🤷
Is that all? I can live with that! A few months ago that I checked there were a lot more open issues.
I guess my biggest difficulty will be that the Macbook is my wife’s new laptop and she’ll kill me if I change the OS… again!
It’s not worth dying over.
Ah yeah that’s pretty inconvenient. Does suspend work with a button push/shortcut, or is it broken altogether?
