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I've got an M2 Air. It is very usable, but its far from everything working perfectly. Builtin speaker support is still a work in progress. It works if you know

I've got an M2 Air. It is very usable, but its far from everything working perfectly. Builtin speaker support is still a work in progress. It works if you know what you are doing and are not afraid to damage your speakers if you make a mistake. There's been progress on this though, so I expect this to be resolved sooner than later. There's no builtin speakers in the author's mac studio though, so I'll give them a pass for this one. Bluetooth and wifi both work, but their drivers are still buggy. I see a lot of errors in dmseg from these drivers and occasionally things stop working and require a reboot to fix. GPU acceleration works, but there is still a lot of work to do on that driver. External displays over the thunderbolt ports don't work yet. Other things that don't work on the laptops: webcam, touch-id / Secure Enclave, some miscellaneous software. Don't get me wrong, I've been able to daily drive linux only on my m2 air since August. I love the hardware and the current state of Asahi meets my needs. And its been steadily improving over the course of time. But its far from "work[ing] perfectly" yet.

lmedinas 4y ago
Do you have a dual boot ?
- psanford 4y ago
  Yes
- noloblo 4y ago
  yes No need to use flash usb drive just enter in terminal curl https://alx.sh https://alx.sh | sh to install asahi linux Dual boot on m1 or m2 MacBook apple silicon
TimTheTinker 4y ago
OP's requirements pretty much uniquely match what Asahi on a desktop M2 provides -- heavy compute, not heavy graphics, no onboard speakers, one big display, no webcam/touch-id, etc. It sounds like if you're developing services hosted in a cloud, Asahi Linux is a great fit for a desktop Mac.
- galangalalgol 4y ago
  Do they ever sell old graviton machines as salvage? Arenithey on revision 3 now? I'd like one of those.
  - da768 4y ago
    You can find the Annapurna Labs AL73400 (Graviton 1st gen) in some devices, but I'm not sure you can easily install your own OS.
    - tecleandor 4y ago
      Precisely today, given the lack of SBCs stock and the price rises, I was checking small routers as options. I.e., a basic mikrotik router is 30 something euros, and in some models it supports OpenWRT. Some of their more powerful routers have a bunch of ARM cores (no video out, though) and I think I've seen people using OpenWRT there. For a while they were using Annapurna Labs CPUs, and I've seen that in some high end Netgear wireless routers from 2017, and I see people selling those with OpenWRT on eBay. I don't know their performance, but I'd like to try that instead for a mini server instead of an expensive and virtually inexistent RPi. There goes a list of routers with Annapurna Labs processors, I'll see tomorrow if I find around some OpenWRT builds for them. https://wikidevi.wi-cat.ru/Annapurna_Labs https://wikidevi.wi-cat.ru/Annapurna_Labs
  - duskwuff 4y ago
    Not that I'm aware of. I'd be surprised if those machines were even usable outside Amazon's datacenter; they're likely to lack a lot of standard interfaces (certainly no display output, probably no Ethernet, USB, SATA, or PCIe, possibly no 120/240V AC input).
    - metadat 4y ago
      This was news to me. Interesting reading: https://www.semianalysis.com/p/amazon-graviton-3-uses-chiplets-and https://www.semianalysis.com/p/amazon-graviton-3-uses-chiple...
runjake 4y ago
Minor point, but the Studio does have a built-in speaker. I'm not sure what, if any, functional level it has under Linux, though. Hopefully, somebody can enlighten me.
derefr 4y ago
> There's no builtin speakers in the author's mac studio though, so I'll give them a pass for this one. Don't all Macs come with a built-in speaker? I.e. the one that plays the start-up chime, and plays "system sounds" like emptying the trash. On Mac notebooks and AIOs, this is one-and-the-same as the obvious external speaker array used as the default output device; but on desktop Macs (like the Mac Mini — don't know about the Mac Studio), it's a separate little speaker hidden somewhere inside the chassis. (It's like the old concept of a "PC speaker", but this one is hooked up to a DAC and routable as a regular audio device, rather than only being able to play tones from a PIT.)
- pram 4y ago
  Yes the Mini and Studio have the exact same mono speaker.
  - richrichardsson 4y ago
    Wow, i would have thought given the Studio price you'd be getting the same speaker as in the current MacPro, which is pretty decent compared to the tinny PoS in the M1 Mini (og version is my experience)

lmedinas 4y ago

Do you have a dual boot ?

psanford 4y ago
Yes
noloblo 4y ago
yes No need to use flash usb drive just enter in terminal curl https://alx.sh https://alx.sh | sh to install asahi linux Dual boot on m1 or m2 MacBook apple silicon

TimTheTinker 4y ago

OP's requirements pretty much uniquely match what Asahi on a desktop M2 provides -- heavy compute, not heavy graphics, no onboard speakers, one big display, no webcam/touch-id, etc. It sounds like if you're developing services hosted in a cloud, Asahi Linux is a great fit for a desktop Mac.

galangalalgol 4y ago
Do they ever sell old graviton machines as salvage? Arenithey on revision 3 now? I'd like one of those.
- da768 4y ago
  You can find the Annapurna Labs AL73400 (Graviton 1st gen) in some devices, but I'm not sure you can easily install your own OS.
  - tecleandor 4y ago
    Precisely today, given the lack of SBCs stock and the price rises, I was checking small routers as options. I.e., a basic mikrotik router is 30 something euros, and in some models it supports OpenWRT. Some of their more powerful routers have a bunch of ARM cores (no video out, though) and I think I've seen people using OpenWRT there. For a while they were using Annapurna Labs CPUs, and I've seen that in some high end Netgear wireless routers from 2017, and I see people selling those with OpenWRT on eBay. I don't know their performance, but I'd like to try that instead for a mini server instead of an expensive and virtually inexistent RPi. There goes a list of routers with Annapurna Labs processors, I'll see tomorrow if I find around some OpenWRT builds for them. https://wikidevi.wi-cat.ru/Annapurna_Labs https://wikidevi.wi-cat.ru/Annapurna_Labs
- duskwuff 4y ago
  Not that I'm aware of. I'd be surprised if those machines were even usable outside Amazon's datacenter; they're likely to lack a lot of standard interfaces (certainly no display output, probably no Ethernet, USB, SATA, or PCIe, possibly no 120/240V AC input).
  - metadat 4y ago
    This was news to me. Interesting reading: https://www.semianalysis.com/p/amazon-graviton-3-uses-chiplets-and https://www.semianalysis.com/p/amazon-graviton-3-uses-chiple...

runjake 4y ago

Minor point, but the Studio does have a built-in speaker. I'm not sure what, if any, functional level it has under Linux, though. Hopefully, somebody can enlighten me.

derefr 4y ago

> There's no builtin speakers in the author's mac studio though, so I'll give them a pass for this one. Don't all Macs come with a built-in speaker? I.e. the one that plays the start-up chime, and plays "system sounds" like emptying the trash. On Mac notebooks and AIOs, this is one-and-the-same as the obvious external speaker array used as the default output device; but on desktop Macs (like the Mac Mini — don't know about the Mac Studio), it's a separate little speaker hidden somewhere inside the chassis. (It's like the old concept of a "PC speaker", but this one is hooked up to a DAC and routable as a regular audio device, rather than only being able to play tones from a PIT.)

pram 4y ago
Yes the Mini and Studio have the exact same mono speaker.
- richrichardsson 4y ago
  Wow, i would have thought given the Studio price you'd be getting the same speaker as in the current MacPro, which is pretty decent compared to the tinny PoS in the M1 Mini (og version is my experience)