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macOS 27 requires Apple Silicon, as Apple draws down the Intel Mac era (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 4 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

Thank you for this excellent long answer. I had the same questions and you addressed them all.

EDIT: One question. Did you follow a guide to setup the dual boot and if you did, can you link it?

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago*

    The dual boot is the default install. The installer is a single terminal command in OSX with the installer being the guided setup. The installer is right on the front page of the distro web site: https://asahilinux.org/

    It is literally just:

    curl https://alx.sh/ | sh

    The biggest decisions you have to make are how you want to partition the SSD between OSX and Linux.

    I’ve been installing Linux in various ways since the late 90s using Slackware, and the Asahi installation experience was the easiest and seamless installation of Linux I’ve ever experienced. It on only occurred to me later why the installer could be so good. Asahi only runs on M1/M2 hardware. The developers knew exactly what the hardware would be and could tailor the experience around it.

    I wouldn’t really recommend Asahi if you only have 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD in your Mac. It will certainly run, but is cramped in daily use.

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