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I have a pretty good time on Asahi Fedora (macbook air M1). It supposedly also supports M2 but no higher. And it's a PITA to install (needs to be started with
by mrkeen 1y ago
I have a pretty good time on Asahi Fedora (macbook air M1). It supposedly also supports M2 but no higher.
And it's a PITA to install (needs to be started within macosx, using scripts, with the partitions already in a good state)
- Gethsemane 1y agoIf I was less lazy I could probably find this answer online, but how do you find the battery life these days? I'd love to make the switch, but that's the only thing holding me back...
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 1y agoHow's Thunderbolt and display port alt mode?
- neobrain 1y agoActively in progress, with related patches submitted to the kernel mailing list as recently as 3 days ago.
- mysteria 1y agoThe issue is that it's hacky, and in that case I'd rather go with a Intel or AMD x86 system with more or less out of the box Linux support. What we're looking for is a performant ARM system where Linux is a first class citizen.
- ed_mercer 1y agoThinkpads come close
- neobrain 1y ago> And it's a PITA to install Curiously I found it a breeze since it didn't require digging out a flashable boot medium and pointing your BIOS to it. Calling a script from your normal desktop environment and having it automatically boot into the installer was really nice. > with the partitions already in a good state) What's this about? The script takes care of resizing the macOS partitions and creating new ones for Linux.
- mrkeen 1y agoThe first time it ran ok. But I had no way to do it again. Spent hours trying to get the Mac partitioner to just clear out the space so I could re-run the installer. No dice. In the end I did a factory reset of the whole macbook and then I could reinstall Asahi.