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> Everything works… and works perfectly. How can this possibly be true when Asahi Linux is still in alpha? A quick trip to the project page shows lots of hard

> Everything works… and works perfectly. How can this possibly be true when Asahi Linux is still in alpha? A quick trip to the project page shows lots of hardware features that are still not supported. [1] It’s not a knock against Asahi Linux - it’s amazing what they have accomplished with a small team. It just seems so misleading for the author to claim that everything works perfectly. [1] https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support

kalleboo 4y ago
From your link, what's missing for the OP is: Thunderbolt, DP Alt Mode, Video Decoder/Encoder, SEP, Neural Engine, internal Speaker Thunderbolt seems like the main missing feature. It's easy to see how someone could live a fulfilling life without running into the lack of any of those features. E.g. is there even anything on the Linux desktop that could take advantage of the Neural Engine or Secure Enclave?
- rcme 4y ago
  Lack of HW video support will ruin battery life if you do conference calls or watch YouTube. It’s surprisingly important.
  - masklinn 4y ago
    OP is working on a Mac Studio, which they upgraded to from a mini. I don't think battery life is their concern.
  - colonwqbang 4y ago
    The mac studio has no battery
  - Nextgrid 4y ago
    Considering the absolutely awful performance of "modern" web/Electron based communications software (aka all of them), I'd be surprised if they used hardware video encoding/decoding to begin with?
    - shaunsingh0207 4y ago
      Both teams and zoom on macOS seem to encode/decode on the gpu for me, as well as meets over chrome
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- shaunsingh0207 4y ago
  I'm dearly missing support for the fingerprint reader on asahi, thuogh its likely never going to be supported.
  - june_soon 4y ago
    They say they are aiming to support it at some point in the far future (they still have to implement support for the SEP firmware in order for this to be possible, as far as I know). Granted, that might as well be never.

kalleboo 4y ago

From your link, what's missing for the OP is: Thunderbolt, DP Alt Mode, Video Decoder/Encoder, SEP, Neural Engine, internal Speaker Thunderbolt seems like the main missing feature. It's easy to see how someone could live a fulfilling life without running into the lack of any of those features. E.g. is there even anything on the Linux desktop that could take advantage of the Neural Engine or Secure Enclave?

rcme 4y ago
Lack of HW video support will ruin battery life if you do conference calls or watch YouTube. It’s surprisingly important.
- masklinn 4y ago
  OP is working on a Mac Studio, which they upgraded to from a mini. I don't think battery life is their concern.
- colonwqbang 4y ago
  The mac studio has no battery
- Nextgrid 4y ago
  Considering the absolutely awful performance of "modern" web/Electron based communications software (aka all of them), I'd be surprised if they used hardware video encoding/decoding to begin with?
  - shaunsingh0207 4y ago
    Both teams and zoom on macOS seem to encode/decode on the gpu for me, as well as meets over chrome
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shaunsingh0207 4y ago
I'm dearly missing support for the fingerprint reader on asahi, thuogh its likely never going to be supported.
- june_soon 4y ago
  They say they are aiming to support it at some point in the far future (they still have to implement support for the SEP firmware in order for this to be possible, as far as I know). Granted, that might as well be never.