New year, new OS for this M1 MacBook Air!
I’ve been using Asahi Linux (via the flagship Fedora Asahi Remix) for a few weeks now. It’s been my everyday laptop and I’m really impressed with how it’s held up. Battery life is amazing, and the ARM Linux experience is fine for everyday use.
This video walks through how I installed Fedora Asahi Remix in December 2025, the process might change in the future and if it does, I might revisit it here or in a blog- watch for pinned comments I guess!
Important links:
- Asahi Linux project: https://asahilinux.org/
- Asahi Linux docs: https://asahilinux.org/docs/
- Asahi Linux “supported devices” page: https://asahilinux.org/fedora/#device-support
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Chapters:
0:00 What is Asahi Linux in the first place?
2:15 Installation caveats
3:27 Actually installing Asahi Linux on real hardware
7:34 About the experience
11:06 Asahi is awesome
#linux #apple #fedora
https://github.com/AsahiLinux/m1n1/commits/main/
seems like a good few people are working on it? jannau definitely is the lead tho
Yes, but unlike the openSUSE project or even the Linux project, if they decided they didn’t really want to work on this anymore due to health issues (which I would think happens frequently), it would be pretty unfortunate for users. I’m not sure how many maintainers there are on critical parts so I may be quite wrong, but I remember hearing that there is only one or two developers currently capable of reverse-engineering the inner workings of Apple’s GPU and silicon. My point would just be that Apple is not a very friendly hardware platform to run free software. Linux for the 15ILL9 has failed to call some Microsoft Modern Standby Extension for months because it was obscure, as just one example of hostile closed source hardware.