Absolutely impressive work, as always! While I’m not a fan of M1’s locked-down nature and Apple’s practice on hardware (which is why I haven’t bought a Mac in almost 10 years now), I understand many prefer using Apple hardware while using Linux.
Given Windows-support is out of the question, this might even make Linux in general more popular among Mac power-users.
Yes, it’s a virtualised one in this case. But if there’s enough interest, I wonder what will happen in the future. We MS already deploys Arm on their platforms, so it’s not impossible they’ll give it a go.
I just bought a MacBook-Pro, partly because I was interested in trying this macOS, but primarily because I would have needed to wait months for most of the somewhat open alternatives I found. I would love to run linux on that machine!
Absolutely impressive work, as always! While I’m not a fan of M1’s locked-down nature and Apple’s practice on hardware (which is why I haven’t bought a Mac in almost 10 years now), I understand many prefer using Apple hardware while using Linux.
Given Windows-support is out of the question, this might even make Linux in general more popular among Mac power-users.
Not necessarily out of the question https://www.tomsguide.com/uk/news/windows-11-on-an-m1-mac-heres-how-its-going-to-happen
From what I understand, that article discusses running windows in a VM. What’s interesting about the work Asahi are doing is that it runs bare metal.
Linux has always been able to run virtualised on arm macs, IIRC Apple even demoed a fedora VM on stage.
Yes, it’s a virtualised one in this case. But if there’s enough interest, I wonder what will happen in the future. We MS already deploys Arm on their platforms, so it’s not impossible they’ll give it a go.
I just bought a MacBook-Pro, partly because I was interested in trying this macOS, but primarily because I would have needed to wait months for most of the somewhat open alternatives I found. I would love to run linux on that machine!
If you’re into those kind of things, Marcan often live streams some of the work for Asahi: https://youtube.com/c/marcan42