Asahi Linux Impressions After 2 Years as a Daily Driver
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2024
- I started using Arch Linux under Asahi Linux on a M1 Mac Mini in March, 2022. It was the first alpha release. I have continued to use Asahi Linux as a daily driver to produce the videos on this channel. In August of 2023, I migrated from Arch Linux over to Fedora 39 KDE. Which I am still using today. KDE is 5.27 not the 6.0.x version which has become available at the end of February. These are my thoughts on the amount of progress the Asahi Team as made in 2 years and my thoughts about using it in my daily workload.
AI Thumbnail: a Cyberpunk cityscape far into the future, something Asahi Linux will surely be present for
Chapter
00:00 - Overview
00:36 - Asahi Linux as come a long way
01:41 - August 2022 Update
02:49 - Native GPU Support
03:45 - Fedora Dev Team begins working with Asahi Linux
04:54 - Current Asahi Linux Features
07:23 - My Thoughts
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Omg im so grateful I landed on your amazin video !¡ I recently installed Asahi and I love to learn about it !!! 😊🎉
Thank you very much 😁
You are very welcome, Vannishn
Pls make some more BSD content. Also you should do a video on Debian with Hurd!
Nice video, thanks
Could you make a video explaining UKIs? (Unified Kernel Image) I think it would be a very interesting topic!
Sure, will add it to the list
I tested Asahi Linux last year, on the M2.
As a simple test I ran "7z b" for benchmark - and it came to over 60'000 MIPS!
For comparison, 16-core i9 gets around 38'000, 12-core i7 does 32'000, and so on.
Which generation i7 & i9 are you referring to?
I did it on my Ryzen 3600 desktop, and got "tot: 1124, 3909, 43873". Assuming the last one is the value you meant, it's about 50% faster than my CPU.
I've been using Asahi Linux Fedora Remix for about 3 weeks and really love the distro. Only bug I have is if I got a external SSD plugged in the computer it won't boot at all. But other than that I've haven't had no issue from the distro to the point I'm liking my Mac Mini again. I liked my M2 Mac Mini but sometimes MacOS I felt limited sometimes. When I saw it supports the Mac Mini M2 I was really wanted to try it out.
Only once I had to boot into MacOS is because I was taking my midterm that require a lockdown browser. But it was super easy to boot back into MacOS and reboot back to Asahi. I'm planning to try out Box64 to translate x86 to arch64 and try out the translation layer. But using Linux in Arm reminds me Linux in 2016 to 2018 when I was seeing more and more programs working on Linux.
the apple firmware, that is a sort of uefi without actually being uefi, doesn't boot from outside media. AT ALL. Regardless of the media type. So its not a linux problem. its a limitation imposed by apple. you can't even install apple os from a removable media. so linux clearly wont be allowed to boot from outside media. what they do however is masquerade linux as a mac os install. and boot that. not from removable media, but from nvme drive. that's why I tell people to keep ext4 and buy ext for macos :)
What about battery life ?
Did you see any difference?
@@sharewareX I can't really answer it because I'm using Mac Mini
@@axlslak I boot exclusively from an external and I have the entire time. You just have to go through a process to “bless” the drive so it is given security permission to be bootable. I boot from mine every day.
U-boot doesn't have proper USB support so many devices will cause it to freak out and halt the boot process. As for box64, I have found it to be very limited for what actually runs with it. Proper x86 support will come down to FEXemu in a microvm to address the pagefile size disparity, as all x86 programs expect 4k sizes and Asahi is 16k.
I still need to do DFU recovery on my macbook air M1, after I manually deleted incorrect drive partition. In terms of performance, I was experiencing strange intermittent performance issues (lagging) especially when playing video through web browser. I experienced that issue both in GNOME3 and KDE plasma. This problem may have something to do with wayland.
Thanks for the video! So, can installing the new Fedora Asahi or reinstalling it not be done simply by rerunning the installer? You must first delete the existing partition? Or was it only due to the fact you first had Arch Asahi?
Yeah its because Asahi Arch was installed and I didnt have enough room left to install Asahi Fedora
@@CyberGizmo thanks for the answer! But if you wanted to reinstall asahi Fedora? Should you still remove the existing partition? I mean with standard Linux distributions you can simply install on an existing partition that will be automatically formatted.
I installed it a few months ago, but decided to switch my Mac Mini back to MacOS. I wanted to run a media server with it, but there isn't enough documentation to run it for anything beyond experimentation. ( I was trying to set up some custom router rules).
I use VLC for playback but yeah who knows what problems you can run into with a media server...the first question would be do they have an arm version of their packages. Router rules are not an issue, I use filewalld under Fedora, it works fine and some of mine are very complicated.
Would be interested in some videos regarding your content creation (software and hardware)
I'm running Asahi Fedora Remix as my daily driver on my M2 Pro Mac Mini. It's working incredibly well, though I'll be much happier when DP over USB-C is implemented and I can use multiple monitors.
DisplayLink seems to work, haven't tried it myself yet though...
Still haven’t tried it out on my M1 Air, but I will at some point.
I need to free up more disk space
My original Asahi failed to update with pacman. dnf now? I wiped one of the small partitions, and reformatted the 100Gb as APFS Encrypted for more space on my 500Gb SSD. Prefer not rebooting, use VMware player with Debian bookworm
great video dj ware as always i always share this video with friends, and all my computesr all use Linux even my steam deck :D. but this machine i bought 4 years ago call the m1 mac mini whichi regret buying over price locked down bsd system gaaah.. bu t asashi linux with fedora core would be interesting and get ALL my computers to be on only linux.... macOS is not cool if i could run freebsd would be a much better bsd system, but macOS no... lol i might just do that and i wonder how well it run games on it....
are there any hardware components you cant use with asahi linux yet? what about the apple keyboard with the fingerprint reader?
They have a full feature compatibility list on their wiki. Fingerprint reader does not work. Thunderbolt does not work (it does work as USB). Microphones do not work. Touchbar does not work.
I'm now on Fedora 40 Asahi Rawhide, just to get KDE6(till 2 weeks ago, I ran on Fedora 39 with KDE5, The only program that did work in 39 and not in 40 anymore is Blender
for now the only thing holding me from using it as a daily driver is 120hz support
My MacBook Pro (M2) went to repair for a defective logic board. So I'll give Asahi a try again soon...
sorry to hear that, but glad you are getting it fixed again, let me know how it goes when you install Asahi
Will do... I have a day off this Friday so... :)@@CyberGizmo
I reinstalled Asahi a few days ago and everything went well. I have begun testing the various software packages I use. One thing I found was "Input-Leap" (a software kvm I use regularly to share my mouse and keyboard between my Macbook and my Fedora Linux workstation) doesn't currently work. This may be a Wayland issue, Input-Leap is the only software kvm that presently works with Fedora. The version I use on the MacOS side (installed with MacPorts) works OK. I'll be testing cockpit, hypervisors etc. It's a new world. :) @@CyberGizmo
A few years back, when Meltdown and specter came out, got pissed at Intel and decided to switch to ARM. That's how it all started :))
Today, everything runs on arm. And at the center of it all its a mac mini running gentoo/asahi mix... I guess you would call it. Lots of other gentoo running on various other arms. I still have my X86 systems. They are gathering dust now :))
I only needed ONE strong arm machine to compile crap for all the other machines. And one apple mini is plenty enough for that. honestly does a superb job at it. Pi5 are getting good at it now too. But m1 still rules.
My electric bill has gone down. My noise level in the house has gone down. Processing power remains strong. :)
What about GoFetch?
Time to time I am joking that I will buy a Macbook, install Asahi and start browsing coffeeshops.
HDMI Audio/Sound ist not working
Let me guess its a MacPro, video on those machine is tied to Thunderbolt, and Thunderbolt is not supported,.. HDMI does work on the Mac Mini, because its not tied to thunderbolt on those machines.
@@CyberGizmo Audio over HDMI works now, this was added in a recent update.
@@lachlanmarie3763 what about video over the HDMI port?
@@CyberGizmo Video over the HDMI port has been available for months now
@@lachlanmarie3763 great good to know will give it a try
Interesting since the M2s aren't that expensive.
The *ah* sound of "a" covers the "h" just fine. Wait until I tell you about regional accents
Tell that to my Wife, she was really furious when I bought the 16" MacBook Pro M2 Max with 64 GB RAM and 4Tb Storage.
Hi, it's Asa*h*i - the H isn't silent.
Right on man.
People are gonna say it how they say it. Same as the beer. If they wanted people to say Açai they should have spelt it differently. Let be was is.
@@Freshbott2 isn't that a family name or something though? Like Porsche
@@NeptuneSega probably. But clearly I’m dyslexic cause I really thought OP said the H *IS* silent. Well duh, I was thinking - if there’s a H there people people are gonna say it.
朝日 ASA-HI
I used it for maybe a year but ditched it because I didn’t like having to dual boot and the idea of working around apple/using apple hardware
Apple silicon is phenomenal
...but overpriced. And what runs on it normally hates any concept of privacy.