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I don't really need USB-C displays or Thunderbolt for my use case. The touch ID is easily replaced with a Yubikey. Everything else just works. What is the prob
by hparadiz 5mo ago
I don't really need USB-C displays or Thunderbolt for my use case. The touch ID is easily replaced with a Yubikey.
Everything else just works. What is the problem?
- Rohansi 5mo agoSounds great for you! What about everyone else? Many people prefer to get new devices so that they can be covered by Apple Care. That completely removes Linux as an option because Asahi Linux never supports any of the recent models.
- MarsIronPI 5mo agoMany people don't care about Linux support in the first place. Generally these two groups are overlapping.
- wat10000 5mo ago"Buy this computer, it's several generations behind and a bunch of stuff doesn't work" is not a ringing endorsement, even if it does work well enough for you.
- hparadiz 5mo agoI still do all my work on an M1 MBP ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Modified3019 5mo agoThat’s wonderful for you and apple.
- Melonai 5mo agoWhat does Apple gain from this scenario? Just to add, I also do my work from an M1 MacBook that I crammed Asahi onto. I got it used for a few hundred dollars last year and it's a perfectly fine experience (for me).
- luipugs 5mo agoSame. If not for the required hardware refresh in our company I would have used it until it broke.
- GeekyBear 5mo agoUSB display support was demoed at a conference at the end of last year.
- Shank 5mo agoWe’re already almost halfway through this year. A demo half a year ago isn’t shipped. This is like when Apple demos something at WWDC that doesn’t ship until 9 months later in spring the following year.
- GeekyBear 5mo agoA patch set landed shortly there after. https://asahilinux.org/2026/02/progress-report-6-19/ https://asahilinux.org/2026/02/progress-report-6-19/