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Definitely not mature enough for a daily driver. It's an alpha, and there are significant things that don't work yet including HDMI, displayport, thunderbolt,

Definitely not mature enough for a daily driver. It's an alpha, and there are significant things that don't work yet including HDMI, displayport, thunderbolt, GPU acceleration, video acceleration, and sleep/deep idle. https://asahilinux.org/2022/03/asahi-linux-alpha-release/ https://asahilinux.org/2022/03/asahi-linux-alpha-release/

martinald 4y ago
I've rarely seen a Linux laptop with solid display out, GPU acceleration and sleep/wake ever though...
- silon42 4y ago
  I'm happy with my T480 (has NVidia, but I disabled it -- it did mostly work with open source drivers, just warmish)... USB-C DP, PD works. The only issue I have is that original Docking station sometimes fails to switch audio outputs (Ubuntu LTS).
- smoldesu 4y ago
  Really? Unless your machine is completely unsupported by the kernel, I find that hard to believe. Even Nvidia machines "just work" these days...
- prmoustache 4y ago
  No issue on my two thinkpads (E580 and Yoga 390), my Dell Latitude 5310, my GPD Pocket 2 in that regard. I have an HP elitebook 8140p that works well with netflix, hbomax and youtube but seems to have lower framerates with other video streaming services. Not sure if it because it uses the nouveau driver or because it is just more than a decade old.
tzs 4y ago
Anyone here have any experience with running Linux via UTM or Parallels on M1? 99.9% of what I do on Linux is command line (I usually don't even install a GUI, using an X server on another machine on those rare occasions I want to run a Linux app with a GUI), so I'm mostly curious about that case.
- indiv0 4y ago
  Parallels on M1 here! I followed mitchellh's guide to setup NixOS [0]. He runs an X server on the machine and works entirely within that (minus mail, etc.). I tried that at first then decided against. I'm now running the machine headless in the Parallels VM, and using VS Code on the host to Remote SSH into the machine. It's absolutely incredible and I highly recommend this workflow. My rationale is here [1]. Fair warning I haven't tried to get any OS other than NixOS installed. Not sure how usable Ubuntu ARM or others are. [0]: https://github.com/mitchellh/nixos-config https://github.com/mitchellh/nixos-config [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31101605 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31101605

martinald 4y ago

I've rarely seen a Linux laptop with solid display out, GPU acceleration and sleep/wake ever though...

silon42 4y ago
I'm happy with my T480 (has NVidia, but I disabled it -- it did mostly work with open source drivers, just warmish)... USB-C DP, PD works. The only issue I have is that original Docking station sometimes fails to switch audio outputs (Ubuntu LTS).
smoldesu 4y ago
Really? Unless your machine is completely unsupported by the kernel, I find that hard to believe. Even Nvidia machines "just work" these days...
prmoustache 4y ago
No issue on my two thinkpads (E580 and Yoga 390), my Dell Latitude 5310, my GPD Pocket 2 in that regard. I have an HP elitebook 8140p that works well with netflix, hbomax and youtube but seems to have lower framerates with other video streaming services. Not sure if it because it uses the nouveau driver or because it is just more than a decade old.

tzs 4y ago

Anyone here have any experience with running Linux via UTM or Parallels on M1? 99.9% of what I do on Linux is command line (I usually don't even install a GUI, using an X server on another machine on those rare occasions I want to run a Linux app with a GUI), so I'm mostly curious about that case.

indiv0 4y ago
Parallels on M1 here! I followed mitchellh's guide to setup NixOS [0]. He runs an X server on the machine and works entirely within that (minus mail, etc.). I tried that at first then decided against. I'm now running the machine headless in the Parallels VM, and using VS Code on the host to Remote SSH into the machine. It's absolutely incredible and I highly recommend this workflow. My rationale is here [1]. Fair warning I haven't tried to get any OS other than NixOS installed. Not sure how usable Ubuntu ARM or others are. [0]: https://github.com/mitchellh/nixos-config https://github.com/mitchellh/nixos-config [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31101605 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31101605