Anyone running Linux on their M1 (or M2) Mac?
Here to share my journey.
https://asahilinux.org/ with Fedora is working really well, but got some annoyances due to the limited software available for aarch64.
The good things are:
- I learn to compile more things - looking at you Signal and Keybase
- Power efficiency and shared memory without the closed garden
- Fedora seems to be a very good distro (coming from Debian)
- Webcam, speakers, USBC ports just work
The (not so) bad so far:
- will think twice what software worth the hassle and no closed source stuff is available to build
- will need to master some emulators like qemu and Box86/Box64
- The built-in microphone hasn't been reverse-engineered yet
- Fingerprint sensor won't work
#linux #aarch64 #asahi
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Is keybase still around?
Yea man, thx for the insights!
Testing Ubuntu on a 2017 MBP. Sound and camera seem not to work yet.
Tried installing Pop OS before, but failed.
Currently doing my work stuff on a 2023 MBA M2, still on MacOS. Love the hardware. Not using any apps from the Apple ecosystem, most of them are FOSS. Want to switch to Linux in the long run, but have doubts that it will be working well.
Probably the last time I got an Apple machine though. The next one will be way more compatible with Linux.
I know someone who rocks nixos on apple silicon. They have a lot of software packaged for arm. Look into it :)
There is no encryption set on the root partition using the default Asahi linux install flow so will encrypt that btrfs partition after the fact.
Will try without using a live USB, wish me luck. 🤞
#asahi #linux #aarch64
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