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I haven't had the same experience with Yabai. I've been using it happily and without issue since April, and I don't think I've had to restart it once.

Before Yabai I was using Amethyst, but like your experience with Yabai, I felt like it would suddenly stop working and needed to be restarted. Maybe your experience would be flipped.

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I tried amethyst but it was essentially useless to emulate an awesomewm or sway like experience.

Switching to asahilinux was a *far* better solution. Not really sure what the use of macOS for me is when asahi exists now.

Is Asahi your daily driver on MBP?

Curious about this as well...I thought it wasn't quite there as a daily driver OS, but would be happy to be wrong ;-)

It's usable if you can live with some small annoying inconveniences last I tried. I can't remember if there were more inconveniences but what bugged me the most was that the touchpad was too sensitive compared to MacOS, it seemed to register accidental touches on the edges more and accidental taps were easier. I tried figuring out if this is fixable with libinput or hwdb but eventually gave up. Also the shortcuts with Command key are way more convenient than the ctrl ones but this probably is configurable somehow. Some Java programs had scaling issues but that can be configured to work properly. Battery life was a bit worse I think, this is with the GPU drivers and no video playback, just regular browsing. Oh and external monitor support isn't there, I do use this sometimes on MacOS.

Yes, absolutely.

Asahilinux >> MacOS

It's wonderful to use the M2 with incredible battery life and performance without having to have a subpar OS.

Can I ask: is setting up dual-boot trivial? I’d love to check it out but can’t ditch MacOS entirely.

The installation process sets it up to you. You'd have to do more work to not have dual-boot (unless there was a setting in the installer that I forgot).

AFAIK dual boot is currently the only way to use Asahi on Apple Silicon Macs.

Is there anything that doesn't work for you?

I'm not parent, but from my quick foray into (Fedora) Asahi on a Macbook Air M2, I at least noticed USB-C connection to my monitor and USB router behind it not working at all. There's something Mac-specific going on there, because from my x86-based linux laptop, this usually works fine.

same here! using yabai on my MacOS machines for about a year now, after being similarly disappointed with amethyst. Works pretty damn good for me, its a god send for me. It is part of the myriad of tweaks that make MacOS so damn good and unique to me.

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