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Last couple of days I've kind of been using #asahilinux as my main non-work OS. This could actually work. It's obviously not great, there are a ton of things that still aren't working, but I'm sort of used to having my #linux setups looking like something I've put together with a lot of duct tape. Now for a change the missing parts aren't entirely because of me, but honestly, it actually feels like #computers being kinda #fun again.

It's also my first full on dive into #sway, although I've tried it a bunch of times before and gotten it to be nearly good enough so I can switch away from i3. I just still can't get it to a place where I'd feel comfortable doing that on my work machine. I don't have any #X11 packages (except Xwayland) on it and it actually seems to work mostly ok for most everyday things I'd need.
Jun 24, 2023 at 9:00pmWeb
Show threadКу 🇧🇬🇪🇺Jun 24, 2023
In fact my issues with it fall in three categories.

The relevant one is things still missing in #asahi itself:
- built-in #audio being disabled due to the overdrive protection stuff still missing (which is kinda meh for me anyway, I almost always use headphones)
- no #thunderbolt support, which is the only serious problem as far as I'm concerned, cause I like my keyboard and big monitor setup at home and really wish I could use it with asahi
- #suspending the laptop doesn't seem to work properly, since it keeps draining a bunch of power in that state, even though it's still less than if not suspended

There are a bunch of tiny annoyances that come from #sway and #wayland
- some tools I use on #i3/#X11 just don't have adequate analogies. It's mostly simple stuff like fbxkb, but it still bugs me.
- #xwayland does lead to some things not working quite as expected, e.g. 1password's global shortcut actually doesn't work, so I need to go and click on it in the system tray to open it. I assume the underlying cause of this is also why the firefox 1password extension acts as a standalone thing, as if I don't have 1password installed separately.
- speaking of the system tray, it seems to be a serious hit and miss w.r.t. what will and what won't work
- the #clipboard is different. I have developed a lot of habbits around using clipboard and selection on X11 and the fact that that doesn't reliably map onto anything in wayland kinda bugs me, but I realize this is mostly a very me problem.

And then there's the fact that a bunch of stuff seems to not be distributed as an #aarch64 package. Especialluly packages on #AUR will almost always be marked as #x86_64 exclusive, even though downloading and building from source pretty much always works. I'm guessing that will be slowly getting better over time, especially if more non-apple aarch64 laptops start going more mainstream.
Show threadBrad PitcherJul 3, 2023
@kunev Pretty much describes my experience as well. Whenever I install an AUR package that is not marked as supporting aarch64 I try to remember to go and leave a comment asking the maintainer to add the arch. We'll get there, little by little