Unleash Apple Silicon... with LINUX!

Thank your very much for the super professional analysis and detailed information Jeff! Helped me to decide against a job offer...

Did you try getting a printer working on Asahi Linux? If so, how did it go?

What super power? T2 and earlier run Linux better than M1 ..

I tried to use dd to image an iso to a usb stick on a mac the other day. It flat out refused. When it was mounted dd couldn't touch it, then when I unmounted dd couldn't even see it. Had to do it on my steamdeck instead.

Why would they intentionally gimp their OS like that?

Updated video soon?

Linux is almost ALWAYS Faster than any native OS because it is not major bloat.

Does Asahi now support GPU acceleration?

Apple could make a lot of money if they promote these OSes:

There's nothing to be afraid of as soon as your data folders are backed up to the external storage. If you run your M-mac to unbootable state it's always possible to DFU-restore it via USB cable like an iPhone or iPad.

For the same price as the Mac mini you can get beelink or minis PC and it's x86 64 bit plus you can upgrade the drives and ram and wifi etc.

Can you make a video when the full release comes out this month? its out on a dev beta

to be fair Asahi is the reason I may even consider a Mac in the first place. After getting my first ever Apple device, an M2 512 iPad pro with keyboard and pen, I could see that Apple is good for 2 and only 2 categories of people: 1. people with a VERY, VERY specific need, and 2. people with no need at all and just want an Apple. If you got 1 task and Apple can do it, it is fine. As soon as you try to branch out and step in to general use, everything crashes and burns, and that place apple products the smallest amount possible above being completly useless... aka, "it doesn't really do anything but it does "X" thing very well"

One reason why asahi is faster is maybe because it uses an application-based programs, instead of macos which uses document-based programs. the latter consumes more power, but is the reason for the interface being uniform throughout.

faster does not mean better way to many of you kids think the faster it is the better it is and thats where you all need to go see a doctor to get your heads on straight, out put quaiity is what matters most and thats where apple is unmatched by anyone else.. apple will eventaully be faster as well then anything out there right now apple beats out the speed of most other pcs and thats fine that there are a small amout for now that are slighty faster but they sure are not better and can in no way compete with apple when it comes to on screeen and output quaility and everyone knows it wether they want to admit it or not everyone knows its true ...

Rosetta2 can be run in Linux VMs on top of macOS to run x86 software in ARMlinux-VMs.
The same thing may be possible with dual boot, with some hacks. (Not sure)

One of the main performance tests for Linux (kernel) developers has always been... compiling the Linux kernel! It's one of the reasons Linux is so fast for general desktop use and compiling especially. Compiling something like Linux involves starting a lot of new processes, opening lots of small files, doing I/O on small files, etc. Linux's memory management, process scheduling and filesystem is highly optimised for this. So it's not really a fair comparison, in some ways. But it's still very cool.

Update, GPU support is now supported

I tred this on my m1 Mac mini last night and there seemed to be no output to my monitor, mouse or keyboard when Asahi was supposed to do it’s final boot. I am using a monitor cable with USBc on the computer side and HDMI on the monitor side. Also using a USBC hub to connect my USBA mouse and keyboard. Will retry tonight with just a normal HDMI cable and mouse/keyboard plugged directly into the USB A ports on the back on the computer.

Just use windows with wsl and buy some 16-core amd cpu. No problems with nor perfomance neither compatibility :)

GPU support is alpha and working!

french gov are steeling us 9gigs....

MacOS is the most superior OS ever. if you wanna run Linux then run it using Parallels desktop. it’s literally Fire

Good video man. Although I think it was a little premature
I would like to watch you revisit it again

Asahi is a good beer.

The big thing that will drive arm builds of common server applications will be cloud providers offering lower-cost ARM-based VMs.

That's untill this video hits tim cook's desk and they find out you are showing how to extend M1 macs life spans and he thinks that means y'all won't buy more macs and orders a software update to shut that stuff down 🤣🤣🤣😂

Super interesting! I have an M1 Mac Mini, and if it ever gets out of commission (because I upgraded or something), an power efficient M1 server would be awesome!

Arm is gay

macos is unix under the hood, this should not be surprising

use windows and your problem is solved

Wait, apple responding to a bug fix of software freedom ? Someone is getting fired

Apple products have wonderful hardware, and good ui design, but are limited by software.

If you care about open licensing please check out the Hasbro open licence for dnd

They are doing some stuff that will affect the software industry if they can get precedence set. Could revoke a lot of licences

Apple should make opensource gpu drivers

M1 Macs becoming 2nd seat to M2 tech, is there a source to by M1 Macs like yours at a better lower price? (Refurbished). I still can’t afford an Apple priced system.

Also Apple laptop with Pentium, is there a good refurbished market for any of those? I would like to load on external drive a Linux OS.

I want to keep MACOS to backup old iPads.. lol

GOD BLESS! HOPE YOU ARE FELLING MUCH BETTER! ALTON

That's nice,except Linux GUIs suck and have always sucked. Not as bad as Windows, sure, but still they suck. I've run Linux systems since the multiple floppy install days and all the GUIs suck compared to what Apple puts out. So why would you replace a better GUI with one that sucks?

Great video ... I had a bit of cringe when PHP was mentioned ... (had to check the date of the video at that point to make sure it was recent)

Yep, Linux is faster. My old Windows laptops come back to life with Linux flavors. And it would, too, in Macs.

Can you make a new video on latest asahi linux on apple silicon with updated inprovements? (Pleaseee 🙂)

As of the 7th of December, 2022 Asahi Linux now has GPU support! It's only OpenGL 2.1 however, but progress nonetheless.

Can it run Arch linux compiled for ARM? I might consider this

Interesting, but I believe it is still too expensive for no having ECC memory. Also there is no official Apple support to use the hardware with that OS so I would prefer other options..

Years ago, I put Debian on a G4 PPC, and was likewise amazed. Never used it much (its still a very low spec machine), but I still have it on a shelf.

So with Pci Express support we will be able to run External GPU as in the past?

I wonder if you can do this on Apple TV 🤔

got rid of osx for endeavoros on my imac two days ago. a lot smoother, and no problems installing and everything is working 👍 also, if you ruin your mac, turn it off, on and as soon as you turn it on, immediately press command r. reinstall mac, and you can try again as much as you want.

Nooo 😭

Performance vs power consumption, how does it do on that metric?