Coming soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs!
Coming soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs!
The first official release of Fedora Asahi Remix is slated to be available by the end of August 2023!
https://fosstodon.org/@fedora/110821025948014034
TL;DR: Asahi Linux will be developed with the Fedora Linux distribution as the primary distribution moving forward. Fedora’s discourse forum will be the primary place to discuss Asahi Linux.
More info:
https://asahilinux.org/2023/08/fedora-asahi-remix/
https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/110825522690584932
Some key points:
- We aim to officially release the Fedora Asahi Remix by the end of August 2023.
- Very soon after Asahi Linux started (well before our Arch ARM-based release), Neal Gompa joined our IRC channels and we started talking about working towards integrating our work into Fedora... The Fedora Asahi project started in late 2021, and work began in 2022 alongside the Arch ARM release.
- Working directly with upstream means not only can we integrate more closely with the core distribution, but we can also get issues in other packages fixed quickly and smoothly. This is particularly important for platforms like desktop ARM64, where we still run into random app and package bugs quite often.
Linux on m1 is mostly exciting for gaming when the gpu drivers progress IMO. my m1 macbook is primarily a work machine, but it holds up fine for mobile gaming. Ffxiv is already a great experience in mac os, but more games compatibility is exciting!
With vulkan support and wine, running windows games on an M1 using linux is already possible. How fast that will be is another question.
It would reduce the amount of work needed by developers as at minimum all they'd have to do is build something that uses Vulkan and it would run on Mx hardware thans to linux. For better support, they could compile their games on any ARM64 hardware and that'd remove the need for an emulation layer (x86 -> ARM).
I'd say this might actually be what unlocks a real gaming experience on Apple hardware without relying on (DX ->) Vulkan -> Metal for graphics, x86 -> ARM, and windows -> darwin. Nothing would have to be done for graphics (vulkan), x86->ARM (if it's only compiled for x86), and windows -> Linux (which already has tons of work and the major support of Steam, while Apple just started with their wine fork for this).
It wouldn't surprise me if an "apple gaming" community would have a post pinned "install linux to game on Apple" in a year or two.
Nice, even more fedora users.
I set up a Fedora Asahi dualboot today. Really liking it so far. When this has support for speakers and microphone I'm fully ditching macOS.
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No way Im running linux on a Mac. That’s what a raspberry pi is for.
Old school. Orange Pi is the new new.
No, Apple Silicon-based Linux is why VMware Fusion exists. 😉 You can currently virtualize ARM-based distros, but if this new release leverages Apple's implementation of ARM for M-series chips better, I'll probably create a new VM and migrate what I need from the old one.