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Well keep in mind that even M1 2+ years since its release is not yet fully supported enough to make it a daily driver with Linux. And it is not exactly a given.
by blinkingled 4y ago
Well keep in mind that even M1 2+ years since its release is not yet fully supported enough to make it a daily driver with Linux. And it is not exactly a given.
- ace2358 4y agoSeems like it’s reaching that point for Linus >On a personal note, the most interesting part here is that I did the release (and am writing this) on an arm64 laptop. It's something I've been waiting for for a _loong_ time, and it's finally reality, thanks to the Asahi team. We've had arm64 hardware around running Linux for a long time, but none of it has really been usable as a development platform until now. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgrz5BBk=rCz7W28Fj_o02s0Xi0OEQ3H1uQgOdFvHgx0w@mail.gmail.com/T/#u https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgrz5BBk=rCz7W28Fj_o02s0X...
- blinkingled 4y ago> Not that I've used it for any real work, I literally have only been doing test builds and boots and now the actual release tagging. Linus mostly compiles kernels and merges things and maybe replies to emails using a terminal, which is very different than most non-kernel development folks' idea of daily driveable. There's the whole GPU thing for example. As a different reminder - Linux never worked really all that well on Apple's x86 hardware in the recent past! Also as an compare and contrast - Lenovo has a dedicated Linux team to support Linux on standard x86 hardware - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lenovo-Linux-2022-State https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lenovo-Linux-2022-State - so does Dell. It takes a lot more than oh we will merely make sure other OS is a policy and rest is left to you to figure out OtherOS folks.