I'm looking to pick up an old M1 macbook from my work if I can slap linux on it and turn it into a usable laptop. Its the A2338

I'm most worried about hardware support and running into constant wifi, keyboard and software bugs.

Does anyone have experience using this class of device with linux?

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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

M1 running Asahi is mostly fine. You'll be missing some major features though, most notably the GPU hardware acceleration for certain things, and port features like Thunderbolt: https://asahilinux.org/docs/platform/feature-support/m1/#table-of-contents

Also, the leader of the project quit awhile back, and development seems somewhat stalled/slow now.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I dont even know what Thunderbolt is so I probably wont miss it, however no gpu hardware acceleration must hurt quite a bit. Do you notice it to be sluggish?

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