I think it’s still pretty experimental. There have almost always been linux distros for macs, I had it installed on a colorful powerpc imac back in the day.
I used it as an almost daily driver from April 2024 through June of this year. Only reason I gave up was I had to keep whitelisting updates and changes in our siem because it started freaking out about the unknown hardware when I’d get on the network at a client site. Otherwise a solid bit of work.
Would ‘it’ be Asahi? I’ll check it out. I’m not quite sure what my needs are yet; I have a gifted work laptop that needs some purpose other than the paperweight it is now, but Asahi might do it.
Yes, asahi on a 8Gb/256 Mac book air. I gave it like 80Gb during setup and that was plenty. At the time microphone, display port and fingerprint didn’t work, but I think even the mic works now. Had to fight with a little to get display link (apple’s video out is special) so it would play nice on some docks, besides that battery was solid, and it just worked.
That’s dope but it looks like this distro is for Macs only.
Wait, there’s a distro for macs? I need one of those.
Last I looked months ago, all I remember seeing was “you can load linux, but it’s hard and you might lose the mac forever.”
ARM macs, specifically. M series.
I think it’s still pretty experimental. There have almost always been linux distros for macs, I had it installed on a colorful powerpc imac back in the day.
I used it as an almost daily driver from April 2024 through June of this year. Only reason I gave up was I had to keep whitelisting updates and changes in our siem because it started freaking out about the unknown hardware when I’d get on the network at a client site. Otherwise a solid bit of work.
Would ‘it’ be Asahi? I’ll check it out. I’m not quite sure what my needs are yet; I have a gifted work laptop that needs some purpose other than the paperweight it is now, but Asahi might do it.
Yes, asahi on a 8Gb/256 Mac book air. I gave it like 80Gb during setup and that was plenty. At the time microphone, display port and fingerprint didn’t work, but I think even the mic works now. Had to fight with a little to get display link (apple’s video out is special) so it would play nice on some docks, besides that battery was solid, and it just worked.