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If they can set a single machine as target every few years and make it work, that would be a lot better than having no alternative.

M1 support is pretty usable nowadays, and I would imagine at least a fraction of the work translates to future devices... It's not sunshine and rainbows, but it isn't a project doomed to fail either.

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M1 support is barely usable, at least on m1 air last time I checked idle battery drain was about 7-8% per hour (in macos battery health is still at 96%). Alt DP mode doesn't operate under kde wayland plasma due to inherent incompatability between implementation design and kwin, everything else is surprisingly good, albeit battery was really hard to ignore to fully switch.

Hopefully, they will manage to get it done someday.

That's simply not true. I have been daily driving asahi for 2.5 years or so now on an M2 Max macbook. In it's been one of the most reliable and smooth experiences I have had ever using linux. DP alt made is working fine for me. I'm not sure about battery, I never measured.

Do you know how M2 support compares to M1? Trying to figure out if M1 is the better choice for a used macbook to run Asahi on.

It's essentially the same. Afaik there is no feature the M1 has on asahi that is still missing on M2.

If we overlook battery life and DP alt mode being funky, crucial for laptop use, it becomes essentially a desktop tethered to the desk.

Do you actually use dp alt mode and not HDMI for external displays? What DE/WM are you using your mac with?

I use DP alt mode and also the HDMI port to drive two screens. I use hyprland and runs fine after configuration.

My battery certainly last a few hours. I use it as any other laptop I had before and use it daily on trains. So I cannot at all agree with your POV that it's a desktop. The battery is working without problems.

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