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anyone who uses Linux on apple silicon or another arm device (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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No, android does not count.

Is there anyone who daily drives Linux on apple silicon or other ARM hardware? If so, then how is your experience, would you recommend it?

For at least 3 years, I've been wanting to get an apple silicon mac to daily drive Linux on, lately I've been seriously considering getting one of these machines, or even other ARM hardware, like the thinkpad x13s or even the new Qualcomm laptops.

I'm pretty much sold on a used macbook air m1 at this point, but I still wish to hear what other people have to say

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

arm64 != M* hardware

Arm on Linux is fine. Supporting all the other SoC parts will obviously vary by vendor. I believe there are still many things broken with Apple's M* platform, but I'm pretty sure it boots. If you really want an Arm laptop, get one the new Qualcomm setups.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki

Things are progressing really fast actually! Take a look at the feature support page

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Well, I guess that's subjective heh. The very rudimentary basics work on M3, but it's not in any way capable of daily driving. M1 looks to be the safest if you really need to go with Apple, but it seems you'd be much better off with the Qualcomm as it has native support.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The Qualcomm Elite x has still very little support. I would not recommend it as of yet.