Ask HN: How reliable is Asahi Linux as a daily driver?

19 points·yu3zhou4··5 comments

Hi, as in title, I'm wondering how easy to use is Asahi Linux nowadays for a regular Linux user.

I'm using macOS since some time, but I long for a Linux, so to say

Just installed Asahi a few days back. First time using linux, and can't say how amazing it is not to have to fight my OS everytime I want to make Quality of Life improvement to my system (e.g., window tiling). As great as Yabai and Aerospace are, at the end of the day they are hacks and glitchy.

Still some wood to chop before it is my daily driver - but am pretty sure I'll be spending most of my time in Asahi very soon.

These blog posts are from 2023, but they go over the experience with a Mac Studio:

https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/ultimate-linux-arm64-wo...

https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/fedora-asahi-remix/

To add another specific question: how is the battery life?

Can't speak on reliability, but battery life is going to be worse on the average due to the fact that they haven't fully utilized the hardware for things like video decoding.

Id just keep an eye on the ARM windows laptops coming, which all should be compatible with linux way better than reverse engineered Apple Hardware

From what I've read there's still significant hardware support missing - numerous usb ports not working all the time, no video support on thunderbolt ports (which means no DisplayPort).

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