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I haven't had the same experience with Yabai. I've been using it happily and without issue since April, and I don't think I've had to restart it once. Before

I haven't had the same experience with Yabai. I've been using it happily and without issue since April, and I don't think I've had to restart it once. Before Yabai I was using Amethyst, but like your experience with Yabai, I felt like it would suddenly stop working and needed to be restarted. Maybe your experience would be flipped. https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst

chaxor 3y ago
I tried amethyst but it was essentially useless to emulate an awesomewm or sway like experience. Switching to asahilinux was a *far* better solution. Not really sure what the use of macOS for me is when asahi exists now.
- koiueo 3y ago
  Is Asahi your daily driver on MBP?
  - chaxor 3y ago
    Yes, absolutely. Asahilinux >> MacOS It's wonderful to use the M2 with incredible battery life and performance without having to have a subpar OS.
    - darkteflon 3y ago
      Can I ask: is setting up dual-boot trivial? I’d love to check it out but can’t ditch MacOS entirely.
      - darthrupert 3y ago
        The installation process sets it up to you. You'd have to do more work to not have dual-boot (unless there was a setting in the installer that I forgot).
      - stefandesu 3y ago
        AFAIK dual boot is currently the only way to use Asahi on Apple Silicon Macs.
    - rufugee 3y ago
      Is there anything that doesn't work for you?
      - darthrupert 3y ago
        I'm not parent, but from my quick foray into (Fedora) Asahi on a Macbook Air M2, I at least noticed USB-C connection to my monitor and USB router behind it not working at all. There's something Mac-specific going on there, because from my x86-based linux laptop, this usually works fine.
  - rufugee 3y ago
    Curious about this as well...I thought it wasn't quite there as a daily driver OS, but would be happy to be wrong ;-)
    - Bombinator 3y ago
      It's usable if you can live with some small annoying inconveniences last I tried. I can't remember if there were more inconveniences but what bugged me the most was that the touchpad was too sensitive compared to MacOS, it seemed to register accidental touches on the edges more and accidental taps were easier. I tried figuring out if this is fixable with libinput or hwdb but eventually gave up. Also the shortcuts with Command key are way more convenient than the ctrl ones but this probably is configurable somehow. Some Java programs had scaling issues but that can be configured to work properly. Battery life was a bit worse I think, this is with the GPU drivers and no video playback, just regular browsing. Oh and external monitor support isn't there, I do use this sometimes on MacOS.
RCitronsBroker 3y ago
same here! using yabai on my MacOS machines for about a year now, after being similarly disappointed with amethyst. Works pretty damn good for me, its a god send for me. It is part of the myriad of tweaks that make MacOS so damn good and unique to me.

chaxor 3y ago

I tried amethyst but it was essentially useless to emulate an awesomewm or sway like experience. Switching to asahilinux was a *far* better solution. Not really sure what the use of macOS for me is when asahi exists now.

koiueo 3y ago
Is Asahi your daily driver on MBP?
- chaxor 3y ago
  Yes, absolutely. Asahilinux >> MacOS It's wonderful to use the M2 with incredible battery life and performance without having to have a subpar OS.
  - darkteflon 3y ago
    Can I ask: is setting up dual-boot trivial? I’d love to check it out but can’t ditch MacOS entirely.
    - darthrupert 3y ago
      The installation process sets it up to you. You'd have to do more work to not have dual-boot (unless there was a setting in the installer that I forgot).
    - stefandesu 3y ago
      AFAIK dual boot is currently the only way to use Asahi on Apple Silicon Macs.
  - rufugee 3y ago
    Is there anything that doesn't work for you?
    - darthrupert 3y ago
      I'm not parent, but from my quick foray into (Fedora) Asahi on a Macbook Air M2, I at least noticed USB-C connection to my monitor and USB router behind it not working at all. There's something Mac-specific going on there, because from my x86-based linux laptop, this usually works fine.
- rufugee 3y ago
  Curious about this as well...I thought it wasn't quite there as a daily driver OS, but would be happy to be wrong ;-)
  - Bombinator 3y ago
    It's usable if you can live with some small annoying inconveniences last I tried. I can't remember if there were more inconveniences but what bugged me the most was that the touchpad was too sensitive compared to MacOS, it seemed to register accidental touches on the edges more and accidental taps were easier. I tried figuring out if this is fixable with libinput or hwdb but eventually gave up. Also the shortcuts with Command key are way more convenient than the ctrl ones but this probably is configurable somehow. Some Java programs had scaling issues but that can be configured to work properly. Battery life was a bit worse I think, this is with the GPU drivers and no video playback, just regular browsing. Oh and external monitor support isn't there, I do use this sometimes on MacOS.

RCitronsBroker 3y ago

same here! using yabai on my MacOS machines for about a year now, after being similarly disappointed with amethyst. Works pretty damn good for me, its a god send for me. It is part of the myriad of tweaks that make MacOS so damn good and unique to me.