It's a bit early (obviously, hence Alpha) but if the pace and purpose of the project make you excited consider bumping a few dollars towards the donation links in the article to help these folks afford to get it done. Marcan is a wizard and Povik has been making great progress but these machines aren't cheap nor their time unlimited!
I just installed this - the installation experience was easy and guided you through the tasks that were happening and why. I gave it 100GB of space on my 16GB Mac Mini, and Asahi runs incredibly fast and smooth. Very impressed!
this is incredible, congratulations to everyone involved in making this happen. there's already instructions for a NixOS install, too[1]<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-m1/blob/main/docs/uefi-standalone.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-m1/blob/main/docs/uefi-sta...</a>
Probably won't happen, but it's interesting that all the things you would need for an "x-serve next-gen" to be successful have fallen into place now. Would make a pretty power packed and efficient 1U machine.
Exciting news! While I am mainly a Mac user, Linux is the other operation system I use (usually via VM on the Mac) and the one alternative operating system I would use, if I would not have a Mac. Being able to boot into Linux directly adds a lot of value. While I don't have an ARM Mac yet, this gives even more incentive to order a Mac Studio :) (I assume support for that is coming soon).<p>I am wondering why Apple doesn't support this more directly. That would be just a tiny drop out of the marketing budget. But at least there seems to be some good will in the relevant OS department with recent changes from which Asahi Linux benefited.<p>On a side note, as long as the graphics are CPU rendered, is this rendering multi-threaded and would benefit from the beefier M chips?
Ironically a MacBook would be the best hardware Linux could presently run on.<p>If everything works reliably well, this could be a game changer for Linux.
Related:<p><i>Linux on an M1 Mac</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30717758" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30717758</a> - March 2022 (136 comments)<p><i>AsahiLinux's Introduction to Apple Silicon</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30699794" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30699794</a> - March 2022 (5 comments)<p><i>Asahi Linux Add Support for the Broadcom FullMAC WiFi Chips Used on Apple T2/M1</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29694497" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29694497</a> - Dec 2021 (9 comments)<p><i>Apple Helps Asahi Linux</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29591578" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29591578</a> - Dec 2021 (174 comments)<p><i>Asahi Linux for M1 Macs Progress October-November 2021</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29564384" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29564384</a> - Dec 2021 (211 comments)<p><i>Asahi Linux for M1 Macs: progress report for September 2021</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28762744" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28762744</a> - Oct 2021 (186 comments)<p><i>Asahi Linux for Apple M1 progress report, August 2021</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28180135" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28180135</a> - Aug 2021 (183 comments)<p><i>Asahi Linux Progress Report: January/February 2021</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26421963" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26421963</a> - March 2021 (65 comments)<p><i>Asahi Linux: Linux on Apple Silicon project</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25649719" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25649719</a> - Jan 2021 (405 comments)
Awesome!! Posting from it now after about 2 hours or so to backup some stuff and run through the installer with a couple glasses wine.<p>Super slick. No issues.
I made a quick guide to install and configure Sway on the Macbook Air. Should be useful to solve some touchpad and scaling issues with the defaul sway settings.
<a href="https://github.com/jaime10a/SwayM1" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jaime10a/SwayM1</a>
Wrote this reply from Asahi which I installed earlier this afternoon before the announcement. Works well and the installer was pretty good for alpha. :)
> At least 53GB of free disk space (Desktop install)<p>Wowsa. I know disk space is abundant but that is still shocking. I've never used MacOS, but why does it need at least 38 GB free for MacOS update?<p>> You need 15GB for Asahi Linux Desktop<p>Wowsa number 2. I'm used light installs using lightweight windows managers or desktops so that number was a bit shocking. Anyone else prefer a small base onto which you can add software rather than getting everything and having to uninstall a bunch of software?
Excited about this. I like the Mac HW but hate MacOs. I can't delete iTunes, books, etc. Switched development to a Chromebook for a decent Linux experience.
Excited to try this out. Still missing a few crucial features for me to fully adopt it as a daily driver but the speed of this project has been incredibly impressive. Can't wait to see how it looks 1 or 2 years down the line.
I'm out of the loop on this one. Is M1 a new architecture, and if so does that mean any distro would have to recompile every package in the repo to target it? How long would that take for a typical distribution?
Disappointed to see Marcan et al asking users to blindly copy and paste a curl command from the internet.<p>“Ready to give it a shot? Make sure to update your macOS to version 12.3 or later, then just pull up a Terminal in macOS and paste in this command:”<p>Other than that, fantastic work and I look forward to eventually having an M1 to run Asahi on<p>Edit: I just wish the wording would encourage you to verify the file. I don’t think there’s something inherently wrong with using shell scripts from the internet. But massive companies let domains expire, why won’t marcan?