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How well does this work? Is it like Linux on Chromebooks where something could break at the drop of a hat and you have to fight the computer to get it installed?
The main problem is you're pretty limited with software since you can only run stuff that's been compiled against it.
Doesn't the Mac have hardware x86 emulation? Or did they remove that because they want everyone to move to ARM?
@HiddenLayer555 @yogthos Yes using rosetta2
does that run on Asahi though, I couldn't figure out how to
it's all ARM now, there's software x86 emulation on macos. I guess you could run x86 vm on Linux, but not sure how fast that will be.
I daily drive it on a MacBook M1 Air, and it works decently for what I do with it with very rare compatibility issues, which is mostly programming, messaging, and web usage. Performance is much better than macOS, but battery life is worse.
Still missing some basic hardware features such as USB-HDMI (which I don't need since I use Niri) and for some reason playing audio uses a lot of CPU, so not sure if I didn't set something up correctly or if it is an Asahi Linux problem.
I think it also supports x86_64 emulation (demonstrated with Steam), but I've never tried it. Or maybe they were just demonstrating the GPU driver implementations.