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Asahi Linux documentation

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marcan of the Asahi Linux project got into a discussion on reddit about this, and says that when it comes to hardware, you just can’t know. > I can't prove the absence of a…

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Asahi Linux documentation repository This is the Asahi Linux documentation repository. Documentation structure Our documentation is organised into categories. alt: Alternative operating system/Linux distribution support documentation should go here. fw: Documentation on vendor-controlled firmware and firmware interfaces should go here. hw: Any documentation related to hardware belongs here. This is further split into subcategories: cpu: Application processor documentation devices: Documentation relating to specific Mac models peripherals: hardware found in Apple Silicon Macs but not the SoC itself soc: hardware blocks integrated into Apple Silicon SoCs platform: Documentation that applies across the Apple Silicon platform project: Project admin documents and stuff unrelated to hardware or software sw: Documentation for non-firmware software Usage The site is generated using Zensical. Zensical is installed as a Python package. If your distro does not package it, it is available via pip. To build the docs locally for testing, simply install Zensical and run $ zensical serve The website is rebuilt by the CI on every commit and served via GitHub Pages.
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I think right now the best option is to run macOS plus Nix for a Linux userland. However, once GPU support and microphone lands in linux-asahi or mainline, it will be probably good enough to switch to Linux. The webcam is currently WIP. That would make a more or less fully functional machine: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support It's a shame there's no comparable x86_64 machine right now. A ThinkPad or a Surface could fill in this gap, especially with a Ryzen CPU. However, at least in the EU, MacBook Airs are much cheaper. Plus, they are fanless. ARM-based machines from other manufacturers are also starting to appear, e.g. ThinkPad X13s. However, performance is still a bit behind M1 CPUs. Full Linux support may arrive sooner than for MacBook Airs, though. Booting Debian is not too hard right now: https://forums.lenovo.c
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In Ask HN: How ready for daily driving is Asahi Linux?
Support matrix - https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support You can run a GUI but it would currently run on the CPU not GPU. Reports are that the UI is quite snappy running on the CPU. The basic Asahi install is Arch with KDE. Linus apparently put Fedora on his travel laptop. What Linus was complaining about is Chrome support, which is coming or maybe is already available - https://twitter.com/asahilinux/status/1507263017146552326?la...
In Linux M1 GPU driver passes 99% of the dEQP-GLES2 compliance tests
See https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support . The laptops are very usable as a daily driver on Linux already, but not 100% is supported and depending on your specific requirements some of the missing hardware support might be a deal breaker. You can very much run a normal Linux desktop with a working UI, that's been working for months, it just doesn't have hardware rendering acceleration (but the CPU is fast enough to make this tolerable).
In Linux M1 GPU driver passes 99% of the dEQP-GLES2 compliance tests
>All of those things you listed also existed on x86 Macs Nope. Security settings on the Intel Macs were per machine just like other PCs. The system of allowing per partition security settings so the user could install an unsigned OS without it effecting the security when booted into MacOS is new on Apple Silicon Macs. As the Asahi Wiki puts it: >From a security perspective, these machines may possibly qualify as the most secure general purpose computers available to the public which support third-party OSes, in terms of resistance to attack by non-owners. https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Introduction-to-Appl...
In Introduction to Apple Silicon
"Apple's approach to third-party OSes is essentially "have fun". We do not have any expectations of direct support, documentation, or additional development effort from them, nor do we expect them to attempt to hinder third-party OSes in any deliberate way. They have explicitly developed the ability to securely run third-party OSes and bootloaders on these machines, and left the rest to us." Under the list at https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Introduction-to-Appl...
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