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The people from Asahi Linux are doing an exceptional job. They’re moving pretty fast. So you won’t have to wait too long.

I'm using Asahi Linux on my M1 because I dislike MacOS.

I would already recommend it for a Mac Mini but not for a MacBook.



Why not for a Macbook? What are the issues?


Actually, I run it on my MacBook. Two things that might discourage most people:

- CPU idle (they are trying to hack it into the their forked kernel but it will be a long way for proper support by Linux)

- Sleep (not even Apple’s deep sleep)

Not involved with the project. I read about this a couple of weeks ago. Could be outdated already.


They actually just today released an update [1] with fixes for sleep:

"We now have a cpuidle driver, which significantly lowers idle power consumption by enabling deep CPU sleep. You should also get better battery runtime both idle and during sleep, especially on M1 Pro/Max machines.

Thanks to the cpuidle driver, s2idle now works properly, which should fix timekeeping issues causing journald to crash."

[1] https://social.treehouse.systems/@AsahiLinux/110497512340479...


Probably related to the different sleep states of the CPU, standby/resume, and battery use in general. Always a pain with Linux.


The Lenovo T14s with an AMD CPU and Intel WiFi sleeps perfectly every time, the CPU scheduler seems to behave right too since I have a full days battery life normally.

I went into the BIOS and enabled S3 sleep though, since it's sold as a Windows machine and Microsoft is pushing the new hybrid sleep stuff really hard.




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