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Sadly they are hard to run Linux on 8-(.
PS5 runs a FreeBSD distro out of the box!
Sadly uselessly so. At least last I heard the updates prevent the known jailbreak, so no root for ps5 owners anymore.
ARM64 Linux Workstation
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Re: ARM64 Linux Workstation
#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
I ran all my stuff inside non-root non-volume container so prebuilt binary it is not really a problem. I used QEMU through Podman machine in the end, but the performance is terrible. Even on MacOS side QEMU does not support Rosetta 2. Docker for Desktop supports and gives significant boost, but I don’t want to use it.
> Even on MacOS side QEMU does not support Rosetta 2. Is Rosetta 2 that much faster than QEMU's own translation? Why?
It's not obvious that QEMU's JIT has to be a lot slower, but it is. It may be that Rosetta 2 is just more thoroughly engineered and tuned for Apple Silicon.
Among other things, Rosetta 2 is able to use the CPU's special TSO memory ordering mode, which I think QEMU's TCG cannot use so has to use barrier instructions instead (MTTCG), or run all the virtualised CPU threads on a single host core (obviously slower for parallel workloads).
Re: ARM64 Linux Workstation
#203I cannot wait for Linux to be fully usable on my Apple Silicon MBP. That is going to be such a killer environment to develop on. Crazy fast hardware, great high refresh screen, insane battery life, fantastic touchpad, gestures and keyboard. There is the potential that Windows games could run on it with some combination of x86 translation and Proton. Using MacOS on it feels like I have a ferrari with square wheels. Wa…
I'm wondering if an M1 MacBook would actually have such a good battery life on linux. The processor is very power efficient, but I'd (naively) assume that MacOS's power management probably has a big influence too. In the same way that Linux laptops usually have a bad battery life compared to the same hardware on Windows. How good is Asahi when running similar workloads? And is it possible that it could reach parity w…
I think it'll be the same on the MacBook pro 14 m1, at least for some people like myself. I had a Lenovo p15 with an Intel chip running fedora before my m1 MacBook and I got roughly the same life during the same working day between the two.
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#204Does anyone know how cost effective a base M1 Mac Studio would be compared to a PC build with comparable cost? There's also the obvious set of trade offs, such as being quiet, compact, but being unrepairable, while the PCs having nearly the opposite qualities. Is the power efficiency of Apple Silicon still a major advantage in a desktop system?
The stock Mac Mini with M2, 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD is $600. Pretty good deal for what you're getting.
Re: ARM64 Linux Workstation
#205I cannot wait for Linux to be fully usable on my Apple Silicon MBP. That is going to be such a killer environment to develop on. Crazy fast hardware, great high refresh screen, insane battery life, fantastic touchpad, gestures and keyboard. There is the potential that Windows games could run on it with some combination of x86 translation and Proton. Using MacOS on it feels like I have a ferrari with square wheels. Wa…
>I cannot wait for Linux to be fully usable on my Apple Silicon MBP
Since TFA says "everything works" atm, including GPU, Bluetooth, Audio, USB, etc, what's stopping you from doing it now?
Re: ARM64 Linux Workstation
#206I cannot wait for Linux to be fully usable on my Apple Silicon MBP. That is going to be such a killer environment to develop on. Crazy fast hardware, great high refresh screen, insane battery life, fantastic touchpad, gestures and keyboard. There is the potential that Windows games could run on it with some combination of x86 translation and Proton. Using MacOS on it feels like I have a ferrari with square wheels. Wa…
I'm wondering if an M1 MacBook would actually have such a good battery life on linux. The processor is very power efficient, but I'd (naively) assume that MacOS's power management probably has a big influence too. In the same way that Linux laptops usually have a bad battery life compared to the same hardware on Windows. How good is Asahi when running similar workloads? And is it possible that it could reach parity w…
>I'm wondering if an M1 MacBook would actually have such a good battery life on linux.
Not 100% the same, but the Asahi members reported something like 8 hours on a M1 Macbook, so that's better than most/all x86 laptops with Linux
Re: ARM64 Linux Workstation
#207I cannot wait for Linux to be fully usable on my Apple Silicon MBP. That is going to be such a killer environment to develop on. Crazy fast hardware, great high refresh screen, insane battery life, fantastic touchpad, gestures and keyboard. There is the potential that Windows games could run on it with some combination of x86 translation and Proton. Using MacOS on it feels like I have a ferrari with square wheels. Wa…
also No need to use flash usb drive just enter in terminal
curl https://alx.sh | sh
to install asahi linux Dual boot on m1 or m2 MacBook apple silicon
Re: ARM64 Linux Workstation
#208I cannot wait for Linux to be fully usable on my Apple Silicon MBP. That is going to be such a killer environment to develop on. Crazy fast hardware, great high refresh screen, insane battery life, fantastic touchpad, gestures and keyboard. There is the potential that Windows games could run on it with some combination of x86 translation and Proton. Using MacOS on it feels like I have a ferrari with square wheels. Wa…
> Want to use FUSE? Fuse is infuriating on MacOS - why is it not included by default??
Because it's a random third party filesystem adaptor module.
Why would it be "included by default"?
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I've got an M2 Air. It is very usable, but its far from everything working perfectly. Builtin speaker support is still a work in progress. It works if you know what you are doing and are not afraid to damage your speakers if you make a mistake. There's been progress on this though, so I expect this to be resolved sooner than later. There's no builtin speakers in the author's mac studio though, so I'll give them a pas…
Do you have a dual boot ?
yes No need to use flash usb drive just enter in terminal
curl https://alx.sh | sh
to install asahi linux Dual boot on m1 or m2 MacBook apple silicon
Re: ARM64 Linux Workstation
#210I cannot wait for Linux to be fully usable on my Apple Silicon MBP. That is going to be such a killer environment to develop on. Crazy fast hardware, great high refresh screen, insane battery life, fantastic touchpad, gestures and keyboard. There is the potential that Windows games could run on it with some combination of x86 translation and Proton. Using MacOS on it feels like I have a ferrari with square wheels. Wa…
also No need to use flash usb drive just enter in terminal curl https://alx.sh | sh to install asahi linux Dual boot on m1 or m2 MacBook apple silicon
Great idea piping a website straight into a shell.