How's your experience? I'm tempted but have so many questions:
- Which mac are you using? - Any missing hardware support? - Dual booting? - How's Bluetooth? - Anything else that was surprising, scary, or disappointing?
- Which mac are you using? - Any missing hardware support? - Dual booting? - How's Bluetooth? - Anything else that was surprising, scary, or disappointing?
As for the MBA, suspend is still a miss (I read that the asahi team can't get certain devices to go to deep sleep, so they chose a safer low power mode instead). The lack of DP over usb-c is a bit annoying, but I mostly use the laptop display on macOS too, so I don't really mind. I think thunderbolt is not there too, but I have no thunderbolt devices (dock or storage). It boots very fast, but I'd recommend against KDE as the MBA gets hot with it. I'm using Sway. I heard about microphone issue, but I've never used it for calls as I have a usb one on my desktop.
The installation process is as easy as something done in the terminal can be. It's pretty much guided (just make sure you have enough space for the installation). If I had to redo it, I'd choose the minimal installation as I don't like KDE that much and it was some pain to remove it.
Don't get me wrong, Mac hardware is nice hardware. But there's no reason to own it if you're using alternative operating systems.
The bang for your buck on computing is wildly better on something like a Beelink mini PC than a Mac Mini. Windows laptop hardware has also most definitely caught up to the M1.
And I think we all know you listed off everything that's gonna be broken with Asahi Linux like Bluetooth and microphone as something you "don't use" just because you know it's broken.
And I genuinely don't use Bluetooth. Everything is wired, although I use WiFi on the MBA. Neither do I like to use the laptop microphone (noisy environment, so I use a headset or the usb microphone). The only thing I care in a laptop is WiFi, a good enough keyboard, a good enough screen, low temperature and noise, and a battery that last at least 4 hours. My default workstation is the desktop.
But yeah, I do agree with you that it's better to go with PC if you're planning to stick with Linux long term.
I suppose this isn't the case anymore