Since macOS was really not my cup of tea, I installed @AsahiLinux on my M1 MacBook Pro.

While I was expecting it to be alpha quality and very buggy, I was surprised to find a pretty great level of support for the hardware!

So here are my impressions, in video form: everything that works, what doesn’t work yet, and how to get it up and running:

#Linux #Asahi

https://youtu.be/ZFx6R26aRHw

Linux on a MacBook Pro (M1 Pro): How good is Asahi now?

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@thelinuxEXP @AsahiLinux I have been looking forward to this one!
@thelinuxEXP @AsahiLinux I wonder if it gets buggy over time like I had with other distros. A long time test would be interesting.
@jacket @AsahiLinux It’s arch, so it probably won’t stay super stable for long if you don’t read patch notes carefully!
@thelinuxEXP @AsahiLinux Great video! At this point, I'm holding off on updating my M1 Mac Mini -- the sound would be a deal breaker; but it looks very promising!
@Jgmeadows @AsahiLinux The amount of work they’ve done is astonishing, yeah!

@thelinuxEXP

@AsahiLinux, great to see Asahi getting some attention. I'm a very happy user!

@thelinuxEXP @AsahiLinux I feel old, I remember when getting a macbook was the easiest linux laptop setup.
@thelinuxEXP @AsahiLinux Lovely, I'm hoping to buy a MacBook myself one day and run Linux on an ARM chip.

@thelinuxEXP @AsahiLinux

As ever, a great video from you, Nick! 💙

Asahi has definitely come a long way since the project started, and I'm so excited (as an owner of an M2 MacBook Pro) to eventually, some day, be able to use Linux on here *full time.*

Keep us updated on the progress every once in a while, too!

@thelinuxEXP @AsahiLinux My work laptop is an M1 Mac. The hardware is sturdy and battery life is good but the UI is awful. The file manager too. If they'd just let users run a Linux desktop environment it would be perfect.
@redmetal @AsahiLinux Yeah, it’s great hardware hamstrung by a middling OS.

@thelinuxEXP @AsahiLinux Thanks for posting this. I write this from a 14-year old Intel-based Mac running Linux, and I've often wondered whether I'd bother to invest in its ARM-based "descendants." Even if your video really brought into focus how little cost-effective that would be, it brings the efforts of the Asahi Linux team appreciably to the fore. They've really accomplished a lot, with zero acknowledgement, much less help, from Apple. Bravo, to both the effort, as well as the coverage of it.

BTW (har har har) I have to say my curiosity along these lines is sated by the more native Arch implementation of Asahi Linux, but go on with your bad self and look at the Fedora respin, I'll still tune in. Just don't make it as long as a dnf update.

Great, now I'm doing zingers. At least I'm not doing zyppers.

Me trying to stop making Linux jokes on the internet:

@thelinuxEXP @AsahiLinux Thanks for your video! You can use archlinuxcn repository for more native archlinuxarm applications just by adding

[archlinuxcn]
Server = https://repo.archlinuxcn.org/$arch

to /etc/pacman.conf 😋