Nina KalininaMar 13
I'm tooting this from OpenBSD running XFCE on Apple Silicon. It was a bit of a learning curve, but it works better than my first Linux did. Display, keyboard, touchpad, Wi-Fi, even sound - they all work. Firefox is quite usable even without the video acceleration, but I'm not sure if I can daily-drive it if I'm not able to play videos on this machine.
Show threadNina KalininaMar 13

This, of course, is only possible thanks to incredible work of volunteers from Asahi Linux and OpenBSD.

The installation is relatively straightforward:
1. Resize your MacOS drive to have enough space for a new OS,
2. Get Asahi Linux installer,
3. Install UEFI-only,
4. Get OpenBSD install79.img and record it on a USB stick (with dd or whatever)
5. Boot Asahi UEFI, it will pick up the stick
6. Install with default settings (skip configuring the network)
7. Mount /dev/sd0i as /boot, find FIRMWARE.TAR on the disk, unpack WiFi firmware to /etc/firmware/apple-bwfm
8. Configure network as usual, install whatever stuff you want, be it xenodm, xfce4, firefox-esr, chrome, etc etc
9. Bonus: configure GDK_SCALE=2
10. Bonus: configure touchpad through /etc/wsconsctl.conf
11. Bonus: configure firefox unveil through /etc/firefox

Show threadEric
@nina_kali_nina
this is a wild path to get openbsd on it! how's power management? what generation apple silicon? I knew Asahi was working on apple silicon (of course), but didn't realise any of the bsds were too.
Mar 13 at 8:35pmWeb
Show threadNina KalininaMar 13
@ejstacey it's MacBook Air M1. I don't think there is any power management beyond adjusting screen brightness, but maybe I have not figured it out yet :)
Show threadEricMar 13
@nina_kali_nina
Cool thanks for the info. I was wondering how battery life would be, but didn't know if they (the Asahi/openbsd gods) had decoded that firmware yet. Have fun!
Show threadNina KalininaMar 13

@ejstacey it looks like the full charge should last ~3 hours, which is not impressive at all. But I haven't fully measured it yet.

It won't be super cool because closing the lid won't make the laptop sleep, probably...

Show threadNina KalininaMar 13
@ejstacey actually, I stand corrected, apparently there's _some_ apm even since 2023: https://openbsdmailbox.blogspot.com/2023/04/lidaction-on-m1-macbook.html
lidaction on an M1 macbook

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