Note: I ask this from a place of complete ignorance, having never owned a machine with Apple silicon…this is just for my own curiosity. With that said:

Is it better to put something like Asahi on there than to leave it MacOS? Obviously, if we could have fully-featured and fully-optimized Linux running on the M1, that would be ideal, but I worry that a port like this would be pretty janky for a quite a long time while they reverse engineer everything

[–] frokie@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can run most docker applications on the m1 on macOS just fine. I use it for anything a rpi would do and more.

[–] adj16@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That’s kind of what I figured. I’m willing to bet that (at least for the moment) containerized Linux on M1 MacOS will run much better than integrated Linux on a half-finished port

[–] PuppyOSAndCoffee@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Hmm all those cores and dat phat bus, interesting way to look at M2 Max.

[–] Jumper775@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have an m1 MacBook Air, and I can say that asahi runs very well these days. It’s definitely not done yet but it’s useable and much much better than macOS for server applications. They have a gpu driver now and everything base-Linux runs flawlessly ime. MacOS is still needed for updating firmware etc, however I would feel completely comfortable using asahi on it as using macOS for such things is a hassle. Docker and podman are just imperfect and not fun to use ime.

[–] adj16@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Awesome to hear - thanks for the response!