Is anyone using Asahi Linux?
Is anyone using Asahi Linux?
If so how is it? I'm heavily considering grabbing an M1 and trying it out if it's in a state where I can be productive.
For context, I use an M1 for work and it's awful only thanks to macOS. The hardware is excellent though. I can run an army of containers for hours, I can have OBS running in the background if I need to quickly record something, and I can have 2-3 JetBrains IDEs running without skipping a beat.
But I truly cannot comfortably use macOS in my personal space. I don't really want to go into my gripes with macOs; suffice to say it's not a route I'm willing to explore any further.
That said, I've tried to keep up with Asahi Linux but have not seen very much feedback from those who are using it.
If you are using it I'd love to hear some feedback on what you like or dislike about it. Does all your hardware work? Do all your standard linux applications work?
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I have a Mac Mini M1 and Asahi Linux works very well on it. Pretty much everything I use already has an aarch64 version. The IDE I was using doesn't, so I switched to the JetBrains equivalent, which does work on ARM.
The one big letdown is that displayport doesn't work. Only HDMI does. But going by your other comments you're using a macbook rather than a mac mini, so that might not matter to you.
It's been a few months since I tried it on my Mac Mini M1, but HDMI audio didn't work last I tried. It was kind of a big deal since I use it as a TV PC.