Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree
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Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree
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Re: Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree
#3Macbooks make one of the good linux laptops (the ones that have support like older retina macbooks). And the truth is Macbook Air is one of the handful ARM consumer laptops you can easily buy right now even though ARM is the superior everyday computing platform to x86. What a weird time in personal computers.
Re: Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree
#4Is this Mac for Linux?
I am not totally sure what this is about.
Re: Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree
#5Is this Mac for Linux? I am not totally sure what this is about.
This is Linux for M1 Macs.
Re: Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree
#6Somewhat related: I'm super curious if M1's advantages would melt away if Intel simply fabbed their current designs on TSMC's 5nm process, to have a level playing field between Intel and Apple's chip designers.
Re: Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree
#7Is this Mac for Linux? I am not totally sure what this is about.
They (community) are adding linux boot to macs with m1 chip. It requires quite a bit of work since apple doesn’t provide any documentation to boot other operating systems let alone drivers and so it will require patches in the kernel to even get it to boot. Eventually (maybe 2-3 years down the road) we may have a very usable linux ARM laptop.
Re: Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree
#8Macbooks make one of the good linux laptops (the ones that have support like older retina macbooks). And the truth is Macbook Air is one of the handful ARM consumer laptops you can easily buy right now even though ARM is the superior everyday computing platform to x86. What a weird time in personal computers.
Is that true generally? I know my old (2008?) Macbook Pro supported Linux well, but I think that took a few years to get things like good trackpad, bluetooth, and wifi support. I remember getting a new one and it couldn't boot into the installer for most distros and still had driver issues (that might have been resolved).
Macs seem to support Linux a few years after release. They were usually a great choice when modern macOS got too slow for that model.
I also never found a good fit on the Windows side for a Linux laptop. I always ran Linux on a desktop. So maybe I would choose a Mac laptop to run Linux...
Re: Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree
#9Macbooks make one of the good linux laptops (the ones that have support like older retina macbooks). And the truth is Macbook Air is one of the handful ARM consumer laptops you can easily buy right now even though ARM is the superior everyday computing platform to x86. What a weird time in personal computers.
Old Macbooks make good linux laptops. This hasn't really been the case for a while now.
Re: Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree
#10Somewhat related: I'm super curious if M1's advantages would melt away if Intel simply fabbed their current designs on TSMC's 5nm process, to have a level playing field between Intel and Apple's chip designers.
> if Intel simply fabbed their current designs on TSMC's 5nm process
I think that ‘simply’ is the wrong word.