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Junoir vs Senior (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 2 points 11 months ago (6 children)

You can also put Asahi Linux on them

How well does this work? Is it like Linux on Chromebooks where something could break at the drop of a hat and you have to fight the computer to get it installed?

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    The main problem is you're pretty limited with software since you can only run stuff that's been compiled against it.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

    Doesn't the Mac have hardware x86 emulation? Or did they remove that because they want everyone to move to ARM?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago*

    How well does this work?

    I daily drive it on a MacBook M1 Air, and it works decently for what I do with it with very rare compatibility issues, which is mostly programming, messaging, and web usage. Performance is much better than macOS, but battery life is worse.

    Still missing some basic hardware features such as USB-HDMI (which I don't need since I use Niri) and for some reason playing audio uses a lot of CPU, so not sure if I didn't set something up correctly or if it is an Asahi Linux problem.

    I think it also supports x86_64 emulation (demonstrated with Steam), but I've never tried it. Or maybe they were just demonstrating the GPU driver implementations.

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