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Has anyone used OpenBSD or Asahi Linux on the M1? I have no interest in running MacOS on one but if the battery life is good it might make an excellent laptop for Emacs and light web browsing purposes.

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> Has anyone used OpenBSD or Asahi Linux on the M1?

Has anyone tried searching this question on the internet?

HN has a higher quality community than many other places... which is why I asked here.

OK, but what did you find after a few cursory searches? Many of the results would lead you to HN threads... where you would find that quality you are looking for.

For OpenBSD, the last threads on hn.algolia.com are from 2 years ago for v7.1; v7.5 is now out, which is a newer version by 4 releases.

For Linux there are newer threads which are still 10 months old, such as: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37538482

I think the consensus is if you’re ok with Fedora’s arm64 package selection, don’t need external monitor or TB, shut down your computer every time instead of closing the lid to sleep, you’ll get really good performance on Asahi Linux but not as good battery life as on macOS

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