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Anyone know if Asahi Linux work on the MBAir M2 as a casual driver on the go?

• wetpaws 4y ago
  Work: yes. Casual driver: no.
  • erksa 4y ago
    I am patiently waiting, the M2 Air is really everything physical I want in a laptop. MacOS is fine, but one can dream right?! :D
• gorbypark 4y ago
  It does indeed! Even the alpha GPU drivers work. Not working: speakers, power management isn't ideal and I don't believe Thunderbolt works, although I haven't tried. I'm not sure what a casual driver on the go is..
  • erksa 4y ago
    Thanks! I wasn't sure if was even going to bother qualify the statement further. Mostly use it for light browsing or just light coding, nothing substantial. Reading the docs of a newly released framework etc. Some video-calls here and there, but I have other devices if I can use this purpose.
    • gorbypark 4y ago
      You can see support is coming along nicely, with many things supported in the kernel directly or in one of the two yet-to-be-upstreamed packages. There's no hardware video encoding/decoding and no webcam support yet, so I don't think doing video-calls would be very good at this point. https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support#m2-series-device-specific-support https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support#m2-s...
    • Gigachad 4y ago
      Probably the most annoying things for you will be the fact that sleep doesn’t work so it just drains with the lid closed, external displays don’t work, and webcam doesn’t work. Most of those will be fixed soon but I wouldn’t hold my breath on the webcam support.