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My understanding is that a lot of the reason is simply that Fedora stepped up. With the Arch-based distro, they were in the unfortunate position of working both

by mort96 3y ago

My understanding is that a lot of the reason is simply that Fedora stepped up. With the Arch-based distro, they were in the unfortunate position of working both on everything involved with developing and maintaining an Arch-based Linux distro and on everything related to getting Linux working on these machines (and Arch Linux ARM proved to be a fairly shaky foundation as well). Now, Fedora is taking care of the Linux distro development stuff, and the Asahi team can focus on drivers and what not. My own experiences with Fedora are mostly positive, both with Fedora Asahi Remix on my Mac laptop and normal Fedora Workstation on my desktop.

jasoneckert 3y ago
That is exactly the reason - Arch Linux ARM maintainers just didn't support it properly (https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/109971521711413167 https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/109971521711413167). But Davide Cavalca and Neal Gompa of the Fedora project did. And as an early Asahi user who remembers when it was based on Arch (https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/fedora-asahi-remix/ https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/fedora-asahi-remix/), I can tell you the move to Fedora has been amazing on all fronts. Bottom line: If you want to run Linux natively on your Apple Silicon Mac, Fedora Asahi Remix has you covered.