by puff_pastry
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- Asahi is awesome!
But this is also proves that laptops outside the MacBook realm really need to improve so much. I wish there were a Linux machine with the hardware quality of a MacBook
- >I am very impressed with how smooth and problem-free Asahi Linux is. It is incredibly responsive and feels even smoother than my Arch Linux desktop with a 16 core AMD Ryzen 7945HX and 64GB of RAM.
Hmmm still have issue with the battery in sleep mode on the m1. It drains a lot battery when it is in sleep mode compare to mac sleep mode.
- (2024).
For those curious about the Alkeria line-scan camera, he wrote a blog about 3d printing a lens mount etc.
https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/2024-08-31-customizing-my-li...
Seems like a crazy hobby to me though! Photography is inconvenient enough without having to make your own mounts and use an sdk to do it! History is filled with inconvenient hobbies though.
I would agree with the sentiment about the lack of good bright screens for lenovo's hacker laptops like the X1 carbon.
by jasoneckert
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- I've been an Asahi user since the early stages of the project when it used Arch. Today, I run Fedora Asahi Remix on a Mac Studio M1 Ultra with the Sway desktop, and it truly has been the perfect Linux workstation in every way.
https://github.com/jasoneckert/sway-dotfiles/blob/main/Asahi...
by rubymamis
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- Did someone do a deep dive on why battery life is so awful on Linux? Or is it some Ashai's driver's inefficiencies that causing this?
by commandersaki
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- 256gb ssd as the minimum spec is criminal in my opinion.
by OutOfHere
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- What is the prospect for newer M support, e.g. M3, M4? I am hesitant to adopt something that doesn't work with current and future models.
- Putting swaybar at the top behind the notch is a great idea!
- Hey! I actually wrote a thing to make the Swaybar a little more "complete" (e.g. battery status, currently selected program, clock, inspirational quote from ChatGPT, etc): https://git.sr.ht/~tombert/swaybar3
Not going to claim it will change the world or anything, but this runs perpetually with Sway and according to System Monitor it hovers at a little less than a megabyte of RAM. You can set how often you want things to update, and add as many sections as you'd like, and it's easy to create extra modules if you are so inclined (though not as easy as the Clojure version since I haven't found an implementation of multimethods for Rust that I like as much).
by cakealert
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- The idea that a group of people would spend so much of their time trying to get linux to work on Apple hardware through reverse engineering always seemed absolutely crazy to me. I would never consider buying Apple hardware precisely because it doesn't support linux and the work they put in achieves nothing because the risk will always remain that they will lock the hardware further. Nevermind the fact that they will likely never fully reverse engineer all the components.
It just seems like a completely pointless endeavor... perhaps some people buy into it? why would anyone buy overpriced hardware with partial support that may one day be gone? the enhanced battery life doesn't really hold much appeal to me, and the arm architecture if anything is just another signal to stay away.
The only thing that makes sense to me is that they wanted the achievement on their resume, and in that given recent developments they succeeded?
- Is there a difference from 2024? Is the M2 still a good choice for Linux? I don’t mind older generations, I’m used to be a bit behind in terms of hardware as a tradeoff for good Linux support.
I used to enjoy the X line of ThinkPads but nowadays I don’t see a point going for them anymore, as the things I appreciated about them are slowly being phased out.
by mendelmaleh
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- I had a pretty similar setup with sway too, idle power usage was pretty bad, but no external display became a deal breaker at some point.
- Anyone know what the story is for running LLMs on apple hardware but using asahi?
- too bad they archived this level of compatibility only on hardware you cannot easily access anymore.
- Why Apple don't sponsor Asahi Linux? E.g., I would buy Apple computers gladly for running Linux.
- Among other things, I quite like the blog, especially travelling photos. There’s some ‘old Internet / old blogosphere’ vibe in it.
Not much to add to the topic of having a MacBook Air M2 with Linux. Glad it works well, I’m eyeing an M1 one for myself. Yet my Retina (2014 model) works perfect with Arch Linux (including sleep), so I’m patiently waiting for it to break. And at the same me I hope it would work another decade, so good it is. Battery life is quite great, it’s between 3 to 4 hours with battery being at 50% of capacity. So, I expect the new battery could give me up to 8 hours, which is pretty impressive for me. In reality, I don’t need a session for over an hour or two. The only thing I miss is USB-C charging, as that way I could charge with anything when I have no charger on me. Again, in reality, it’s a pretty rare scenario.
- author mentions he paid $750 for a MacBook Air M2 with 16GB while on Amazon a M4 Air with 16GB is usually $750-800. I get it that M4/M3 aren't supported to boot Asahi yet, but still.
by gnarlouse
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- All Firefox users should switch to librewolf. In the short term it’s for telling Mozilla to go f**, in the long term it’s a browser fork with with really good anti fingerprinting.
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