Is your MacBook the BEST Linux laptop? Asahi Linux for M1 MacBook Air Review
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
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Unlock the full potential of your M1 MacBook Air with Asahi Linux! In this comprehensive review, I'll guide you through the installation process, showcase the system's performance, and explore its gaming capabilities. Discover how Asahi Linux transforms your Mac into a versatile Linux powerhouse.
00:00 Intro
00:56 Installation
01:52 Battery life
03:19 Compatibility
04:25 Software
05:31 Performance
06:28 Gaming
07:40 Overall impression - Наука та технологія
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According to u/Capta1nT0ad from Reddit:
As for the occasional magenta/purple flash, that’s the colour for failed renders on these machines, instead of black or transparent on most other platforms. It just means that the render failed. On 8G machines, this will often happen in Firefox when lots of tabs are open as because of the unified VRAM system there is not enough VRAM to render. These issues will most likely be fixed when the memory management of the GPU driver improves, but in the meantime the problem gets a lot better if you enable the ‘tabs.unloadOnLowMemory’ flag in Firefox’s about:config.
I'm excited for the future of Asahi Linux - I feel like the Macbook Pro range has the potential to be the best portable Linux device available
Agreed. The power efficiency is unbeatable.
@@yoyosan999 I do wish Apple were compelled to release some amount of technical documentation on their hardware to help the creation of Linux drivers (just like how electronics used to be distributed with schematics a few decades ago) - EU I hope you're listening 👀
Snapdragon X Elite is coming hope they work with open source community for h/w drivers and other software working on their platform.
Quick and simple review. Much appreciated! 👍🙏
Thank for this update!
Great to hear that it is getting better.
I’d like to try but I’d be worried I would want to switch back and I don’t know how to download the Macos again
You wouldn't need to. It's a dualboot installation so you get to keep macos untouched. You just need to shrink the partition of macos to make space for the Linux os.
Thank you!
It answered to all my questions!
Thanks for watching
I think this is the first video I've put in my Linux and Mac playlists
Thank you for watching!
I wonder, if zram with aggressive swapping would be useful for this macbook
Thank you for a feedback
Excellent video! I thoroughly enjoyed it. I do have a question though. Have you ever encountered a strange behavior in Plasma where, upon logging in, the wallpaper enlarges for about a second before returning to its normal size? Furthermore, do you observe a slight blurriness affecting the KDE Plasma taskbar, application launcher icons, and wallpaper until you hover your mouse cursor over them after the wallpaper issue? This has been my most notable frustration with Asahi Linux thus far.
Thank you for your kind words. Really appreciate it. I haven't seen the issues you mentioned but maybe I was just not carefully looking.
Looks like I'll be installing Asahi, seems by what your saying to be mature enough now. Thanks for a great review!
Thanks for watching!
ashahi linux is getting some real work done slowly but surely, waiting for that external monitor support to finally switch over!
Yeah the devs are doing amazing work!
I dunno man. I close my laptop and then reopen it the next day and it's 100% dead..... sometimes it bugs out and just doesn't sleep. not sure why and this is on macos
Thanks for this review. I've been using Asahi as well and have been very impressed. I use both Linux and MacOS (with MacPorts). Which OS I use depends on what I'm doing. I have no reason to make an either/or choice. The more the merrier I say!
Yeah I use Linux macos as well as Windows. Each os has its strength.
Thanks for the video! Concerning battery life, have you tried installing something like powertop or tlp? Concerning swap, doesn't Fedora come with zram already configured?
I haven't tried TLP or Powertop yet. Aren't those supposed to be working with Intel and AMD chips only? As for the swap usage, I did notice that Fedora tends to use swap more frequently than macOS. I am not sure about the zram situation though.
I think you answered your own question about battery life: no video hardware acceleration. Hence the drop in battery life. Also: standby is not the same as in MacOS. All in all I really cannot see any reason to run Linux on any recent Apple hardware. On the Intel Macs for sure (especially if you dont get updates anymore) but on m1/2/3 ? I dont see the use case? Great video though!
when the update obsolete? or for someone who is like a cybersecurity a linux device is better than mac.
The more it is used now by people the faster issues can be shaken out so when it goes end-of-support by Apple you can re-purpose it instead of tossing it in a drawer (or worse, a landfill).
Thank you very much for this fantastic video! Just one question: does the microphone work? On the project's website, they mention that the microphone does not work..
Then it probably doesn’t
The mic doesn’t work unfortunately.
Do other GPU features, than the video en/decoding work? I mean, for example, Blender GPU rendering work?
I am not familiar with Blender but KDE's compositor works fine with hardware acceleration.
Interesting video thanks
thank you!
Did you compare the battery life to mac's low power or high power mode?
I haven't done any formal test but in my experience I think with Linux it's about 70-80% of the battery life you get on macos in similar situations.
After learning that battery life is worse on Linux, i am no longer interested. Thank you for this video, i appreciate it.
I am glad the video provides useful information to you!
I’m quiet new to Linux , I need Linux what Linux should I use like server one or I don’t understand , tell me for UTM
For utm? You can just install as many as you want and try them all.
cool video! :)
thanks for watching!
what is that vid you playing in PiP
You mean the music video? 松たか子 Matsu Takako - 夢のほとりで逢いましょう
Hey if USB C is not working on ASahi, so i can not charge my macbook ?
You can charge your MacBook via USB-C, as well as transfer data. Everything would work except video output.
@@yoyosan999 But on the website it saids something like "USB-C Display"s not working"
So what are the const using Ashai right now on my macbook pro ?
@elioncatak8275 The cost is that you can't use USB-C for video output.
i'm using macbook m1, is it safe to transition from Mac OS into Linux as a whole? i'm planning to only use Linux with external monitor does it work? thank you for making the video
Hi thanks for watching! If you are using an M1 MacBook Air then there is no way to connect to an external monitor yet. Other than that the Linux experience is quite good already.
@@yoyosan999 thank you for replying, but how about Macbook Pro 13inch M1? is it possible?
@depreza68 it seems that the pro model doesn't have a HDMI port either so not possible again 😞
@@yoyosan999 It can be done with an adapter (even with the M1 Air), but the Asahi team hasn't been able to finish the drivers yet. Thunderbolt / USB4 support should be coming this year.
Great video! Not going to change yet, but it might be a great option when Apple doesn’t support the M1/M2 anymore.
I am confident the project will continue to go better and better. Just thinking about what the developers had to go through to make this possible is mind blowing 🤯.
Thank you!
Same here. In a year or two this is going to be so good.
great video
Thank you
@@yoyosan999 you are welcome, I can be dull sometimes but I can recognize quality when I see it haha
@@GANTZ4455it got over 1000 views! Today is my happy day haha.
@@yoyosan999 I never doubted you broo
rip yuzu
Sad week for emulation.
I would buy a macbook but literally everything is soldered on to the mobo
Image the ram being upgradable
What about gaming using Linux on M1 mac?
Currently gaming is not great because it's lacking Vulkan support but the devs are working on it so we will see major improvement in the near future.
LETS GO KNICKS
My Intel Macbook Air with linux is giving about the same battery backup as this Asahi Linux. My 2016 Macbook has same amount of RAM(8GB) as base M1 MBA, MBA with 16GB RAM are extremely expensive in India, they don't have any discounts on them. So I don't see any reason to upgrade to M1 Macbook Air.
Can I buy an old mac, install asahi and it runs faster than the newer IOS? This is the ultimate question.
I suspect apple has a built in animation delay opening application, menus etc, this delay increases by nano seconds everyday. If you ask in the apple forums about this. you get attacked.
Haha. Then if you reinstall the OS it goes back to the normal speed ? They don't need to do this for programmed obsolescence
This isn't real just clean out your laptop, replace thermal paste and reinstall the os
I prefer linux, so i will switch one day. But for now, macs better battery life has me 😢.
Sadly battery life on Linux might never be as good as on macOS.
@@yoyosan999 yeah agreed, but it's not the only factor either. The use case for older machines changes, I ran my old 2012 MacBook pro as a linux server for a few years there before selling it (raid 0 SSD and a ram upgrade made it pretty decent). Besides, if I lost battery life, but gained gaming, I wouldn't complain either.
It still lacks touch, though.
I never use a touch screen in a laptop though.
Come on, 8Gb RAM is totally fine.
i'm still fine with 8GB on my thinkpad t460
I don't know why but it seems in Linux the RAM shortage is more obvious.
yeah... I'm gonna stick to MacOS.
Always great to have choices.
Linux has come a long way and runs very well on M1. Did you expect everything to run flawlessly? Don't forget it's opensource and not a huge trillion dollar company like Apple doing the development.
Me too, for now. Given that Apple abandons hardware that is still useful having Linux available will be very useful.
It might not be great today, but when it gets unsupported it will be a great operating system.
please, do not include gaming into your next review. the choice of games and the fact that 23-30fps is "playbale" shows you have quite "nuanced" taste in games that is probably not shared by wider public
Thanks for your feedback. I do think those are playable on a laptop although when I play on pc I tend to need much higher framerates.
Your breathing into the mic is so annoying!!
Really sorry about that.
Nice! Does the webcam and mic work? I heard they don't?
Mic doesn't work but the webcam works fine.
@@yoyosan999 Little things like that make me worry that it’ll only get more locked down by Apple as time goes on- idk if any Linux experience on Apple hardware will be as functional/useful as their native OS.
@@Rushil69420given enough time it will improve. The last time I checked in on this distro (I don’t have the hardware) it couldn’t do sound and was still missing a lot of features and that was back when The Linux Experiment was looking at it. That wasn’t that long ago and now speakers and headphone jack work. Linux (especially for Apple stuff) requires hobbyists to provide drivers and such. Considering that, it’s amazing.
Oh god!....STOP THE MUSIC....or CHANGE IT!?.....Hahahahah!!!
I like the music :D
Piano is dope, u r lil kid i guess. Not mature enough.
I like the music