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Linux on a Mac (it's not going back) (tinkerbetter.tube)

submitted 10 months ago by artyom@piefed.social to c/linux@lemmy.world

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New year, new OS for this M1 MacBook Air!

I've been using Asahi Linux (via the flagship Fedora Asahi Remix) for a few weeks now. It's been my everyday laptop and I'm really impressed with how it's held up. Battery life is amazing, and the ARM Linux experience is fine for everyday use.

This video walks through how I installed Fedora Asahi Remix in December 2025, the process might change in the future and if it does, I might revisit it here or in a blog- watch for pinned comments I guess!

Important links:

Asahi Linux project: https://asahilinux.org
Asahi Linux docs: https://asahilinux.org/docs/
Asahi Linux "supported devices" page: https://asahilinux.org/fedora/#device-support

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Chapters:
0:00 What is Asahi Linux in the first place?
2:15 Installation caveats
3:27 Actually installing Asahi Linux on real hardware
7:34 About the experience
11:06 Asahi is awesome

#linux #apple #fedora

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[–] Fuzzypyro@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It’s pretty serviceable at this point. Fan and temperature monitoring in the kernel just made its way in too. I’ve been using Nixos with the Asahi kernel on a 64gb M1 Max MacBook Pro for the past few months and it’s been a pretty fantastic experience overall. Before that I was using it on a 8gb m1 air and it was decent enough. I wouldn’t say it’s perfect by any means but it is capable enough that I could not see switching it back to macOS for much of anything outside of some production stuff.

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[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

And Mac has 'some production stuff' that's leagues better than anything Linux offers. So ... great for everyday use ... if you can get the Mac hardware at a great price.

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[–] artyom@piefed.social [S] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

What's the battery life like?

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[–] Fuzzypyro@lemmy.world 1 point 10 months ago

It’s been pretty decent overall. I haven’t done a proper comparison or anything though. On the pro I haven’t even really used macOS as I bought it to put Asahi on. That reminds me that I should test the battery cap.

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