Sure but I spotted asahi a year or two ago. At that point not much worked. Things are going forward pretty fast. Im impressed at whats been done so far
For an end user who uses Just WorksTM distro, Asahi Linux might not be “done” until they are able to boot their favourite distro’s installer off a USB stick and run its install procedure like they would on an amd64 machine. They likely also expect features like 3D acceleration, modesetting, WiFi, Bluetooth, Thunderbolt etc. to all work out of the box. For this to all be the case, all the relevant kernel patches have to be accepted upstream and then pulled into the distro’s generic kernel and the user’s particular machine must have support in U-Boot. Considering that at the time of writing, many of these drivers haven’t even been committed to linux-asahi, so this point is probably quite far away. For people who expect such things, Asahi Linux likely won’t be “done” for another year, maybe two.
I mean, for me personally, I don’t mind having to do a good amount of legwork to get a distro running – that was the case with getting Linux running on most x86 laptops for a long time. but not even being able to get critical functionality working would make Asahi Linux a non-starter for me – I’d prefer to either get a PC laptop and run Linux or an MBP and run MacOS with a load of homebrew packages.
and don’t get me wrong, it’s really cool that Asahi’s development is moving so fast! but it’s just not at a place where I could run it on a work machine, and I bet that applies to many other professionals, too.
Sure but I spotted asahi a year or two ago. At that point not much worked. Things are going forward pretty fast. Im impressed at whats been done so far
For an end user who uses Just WorksTM distro, Asahi Linux might not be “done” until they are able to boot their favourite distro’s installer off a USB stick and run its install procedure like they would on an amd64 machine. They likely also expect features like 3D acceleration, modesetting, WiFi, Bluetooth, Thunderbolt etc. to all work out of the box. For this to all be the case, all the relevant kernel patches have to be accepted upstream and then pulled into the distro’s generic kernel and the user’s particular machine must have support in U-Boot. Considering that at the time of writing, many of these drivers haven’t even been committed to linux-asahi, so this point is probably quite far away. For people who expect such things, Asahi Linux likely won’t be “done” for another year, maybe two.
https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/"When-will-Asahi-Linux-be-done%3F"
I mean, for me personally, I don’t mind having to do a good amount of legwork to get a distro running – that was the case with getting Linux running on most x86 laptops for a long time. but not even being able to get critical functionality working would make Asahi Linux a non-starter for me – I’d prefer to either get a PC laptop and run Linux or an MBP and run MacOS with a load of homebrew packages.
and don’t get me wrong, it’s really cool that Asahi’s development is moving so fast! but it’s just not at a place where I could run it on a work machine, and I bet that applies to many other professionals, too.