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everything about asahi feels like it's an apple's product: everywhere you look - it is always "amazing"!

but so far no finally usable implementation exists even for m1 macbooks and they age quickly, and I doubt people will see anything usable in the end (yeah, you might get a fully working Linux on your old dusty m1 when you buy m7, happy?).

so far it is achievements for the sake of achievements

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Things take significantly more time without documentation. Try reverse engineering something and you’ll wake up 7 days later with almost no result thinking what the heck were you trying to do in the first place.

    so far it is achievements for the sake of achievements

We are people, and we need to feel that our hard work isn’t for nothing. Sharing achievements and getting some praise for it is one way to keep our ambition.

Asahi devs are reading these comments. Don’t shit on their work for no good reason.

So far M systems are pretty similar to each other, which means m2 was much less work than m1. And I suspect m3 will be less work than m2. There's definitely a long delay on the first model, but extrapolating that to 6 next releases doesn't make sense.

> so far it is achievements for the sake of achievements

People are daily driving Asahi today, so that's incorrect.

> but so far no finally usable implementation exists even for m1 macbooks and they age quickly, and I doubt people will see anything usable in the end (yeah, you might get a fully working Linux on your old dusty m1 when you buy m7, happy?).

I'm not sure what you mean, I've been running Asahi on my M1 for about a year now. I have enabled sound (without the safeties, but I'm not listening to anything remotely loud) and the only thing annoying is the lack of microphone (I have to plug headphones when I need a micro).

It's been totally usable for at least a year.

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