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Apple also left a very convenient hole in their boot loader to allow running another OS. Linux works pretty well these days

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* on M1 and M2 variants.

The bootloader supports third-party operating systems on M3/M4 as well. Linux support just isn't there yet.

Just to clarify, Asahi Linux is working on M3/M4 support. As far as I can tell nothing changed in the boot loader that makes this work more difficult, it just takes time to add the new hardware.

https://git.sudo.is/mirrors/AsahiLinux-docs/wiki/M3-Series-F...

* As long as you don't want to use any external displays

Works with devices with HDMI ports

Really? I got a bunch of error upgrading my Arch-based Asahi and now chromium doesn't work anymore. Oh and no external display, or speaker.

You mean you have bugs on a system that isn’t announced as production ready yet ?

I tested Asahi and I genuinely love it and I’ll probably be happy to use it as my daily driver as soon as it will be mature enough. And I’m impressed by how it works well (outside of what still doesn’t work at all).

But buying a Mac ARM hopping to run Linux on it today without issue is just a wrong move. Just buy a classic PC if you want to be productive on Linux today.

I’m pretty confident it will happen though since the team itself looks pretty confident about supporting what is currently missing and in the past, achieved more than I hoped.

Its amazing how far they have come, but it still lacks so much.

simply replying to (on ARM) "linux works pretty well these days"

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