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Re: ARM64 Linux Workstation

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Post by throw10920 »

capableweb wrote: post #184
apatheticonion wrote: post #152

I 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 could go on but as someone who has used MacOS for years and generally appreciates it, Apple really doesn't care much for developers. Other than its POSIX shell, MacOS doesn't have much going for it. This is why I couldn't justify continuing spending money on Apple (computer) hardware, I don't want to feel like a second-rate citizen on the platform I spend most of my time on. I used and loved MacBooks for a long t…

> But a side of me would love a laptop, but I need the maker to actually want to support me, not make it feel like sometimes they work against me.

Take a look at the Framework - a friend got it and is very happy with it.

https://frame.work/

Re: ARM64 Linux Workstation

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Post by iforgotpassword »

rektide wrote: post #428
iforgotpassword wrote: post #347

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The most annoying thing that prevents me from running --auto-tune on bootup is that there's no way to exclude USB devices. So if I boot when docked, the mouse will stop working when I don't move it for a few seconds and I need to click to make it work again. And no, unplugging it once is not an acceptable solution.

It just got added in 2023, but there's now --auto-tune-dump which generates a command line invocation of powertop that would set all the auto-tune settings. Instead of running --auto-tune, you can make a script of this dump, modify it to your contentment, and run the script instead of auto-tune at startup. So you can omit your mouse! Ideally there would also be a way to omit certain device or subsystem tunings from a…

Awesome! Yes, I was thinking about doing this manually by toggling every setting manually and copying the command being displayed but gave up quite quickly as it was too cumbersome. Sometimes the screen would refresh before you copied so you had to do it again... This option solves that nicely.

Re: ARM64 Linux Workstation

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Post by biomcgary »

paines wrote: post #369
linmob wrote: post #318

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I used my M1 MacBook Air last weekend with Asahi and GNOME on train ride for roughly 4 hours (browsing the web, fiddling with a server over ssh, writing a blog post) and when shutting it down, it was still at 78%. This used to be different when I first installed Asahi, but the GPU driver and other improvements have made battery life something I don't really worry about anymore.

thank you for that report. This convinced me to install it now.

The only thing holding me back from running Asahi is lack of HDMI output (at least on M1 Airs). Has anyone heard about progress (or its likelihood) recently?

Re: ARM64 Linux Workstation

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Post by satysin »

xiwenc wrote: post #414
satysin wrote: post #352

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> Using MacOS on it feels like I have a ferrari with square wheels. Indeed macOS is the weakest part when working on Apple Silicon. Sure it’s quite pretty but it stumbles over itself with terrible quality of life features. macOS looks modern but feels around ten years behind other desktops now. Apple love to talk about how professionals and power users can get so much work done with the amazing Apple Silicon but igno…

> Honestly who at Apple signed off on Stage Manager before basic window snapping?! Or UX testing. I gave it a try for a week. Gave up. It’s one of those few features that is not intuitive at all. And it was supposed to help with productivity. Epic fail.

It really is awful isn't it. Why anyone thought a second dock on the side of the screen would make multitasking easier I have no idea. I think they did it just to be different.

I believe the reason they don't bring window snapping and better overall window management to macOS is because it is something Windows and every Linux DE does and has done for years so they will be seen as copying and being "late".

One of the good things about the changes in Windows 11 is the new snap assistant that pops out at the top of the screen when you move a window. It's simple and clear how to use it and makes sense visible only when appropriate.

Re: ARM64 Linux Workstation

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Post by axelthegerman »

That's great - still would love to see if it brings any improvement when using "modern" SPAs. Everything except those work great on my 2013 MBP.

Sure compiling will take a bit longer than on that machine but I'm not doing that very often - nor do I occasionally run 48 core kubernetes microservices clusters, but to each their own.

Happy to hear about the HW support for Linux though.

Re: ARM64 Linux Workstation

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Post by usr1106 »

Asdrubalini wrote: post #153
usr1106 wrote: post #5

Depending on the country you live earth overshoot day is pretty soon. 128GB of RAM and other specs for a workstation certainly sound like overshoot. I'd wish smart people would use their brains and saving resources instead of wasting them.

How can Earth overshoot day be different from country to country? Isn't it related to the Earth as a whole?

You can accumulate/partition statistical numbers in different granularity. Here it's done by countries. You could also do it by men or women or whatever partitioning you want. And of course you can choose to not partition at all and report only one global number.

Calling it still earth overshoot day after partitioning might be not fully correct.

Check here for your country overshoot day https://www.overshootday.org/newsroom/country-overshoot-days...

Re: ARM64 Linux Workstation

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Post by ofchnofc »

bornfreddy wrote: post #308
taspeotis wrote: post #186

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It’s called a race condition. They never expected something to complete before another thing.

Yup. It is also a bug and a very difficult one to catch, so original devs would probably be very grateful for report and help in fixing it. I hope OP opened an issue.

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Re: ARM64 Linux Workstation

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Post by josephd79 »

satysin wrote: post #352
apatheticonion wrote: post #152

I 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…

> Using MacOS on it feels like I have a ferrari with square wheels. Indeed macOS is the weakest part when working on Apple Silicon. Sure it’s quite pretty but it stumbles over itself with terrible quality of life features. macOS looks modern but feels around ten years behind other desktops now. Apple love to talk about how professionals and power users can get so much work done with the amazing Apple Silicon but igno…

I use an ultra wide with my M1 Pro. It’s actually pretty great. I agree on the on the windows manager. I use rectangle app for that.

Re: ARM64 Linux Workstation

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Post by paines »

biomcgary wrote: post #433
paines wrote: post #369

Earlier quoted context omitted.

thank you for that report. This convinced me to install it now.

The only thing holding me back from running Asahi is lack of HDMI output (at least on M1 Airs). Has anyone heard about progress (or its likelihood) recently?

I tried it just now on M1 14'': nothing...

Re: ARM64 Linux Workstation

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Post by paines »

paines wrote: post #369
linmob wrote: post #318

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used my M1 MacBook Air last weekend with Asahi and GNOME on train ride for roughly 4 hours (browsing the web, fiddling with a server over ssh, writing a blog post) and when shutting it down, it was still at 78%. This used to be different when I first installed Asahi, but the GPU driver and other improvements have made battery life something I don't really worry about anymore.

thank you for that report. This convinced me to install it now.

Actually it works quite nicely on a M1 14''. Even battery life is quite good. Compared to my Dell XPS 15 7590 it has twice the battery life, easily if not even more.

One thing which bothers me a lot as it makes the laptop hardly useable for me at night: display brightness cannot be adjusted, it is either off or 100%. Some user claim this can be accomplished by installing the asahi-edge kernel, which does not even boot for me.

And this also bothers me lot: why are things checked in/distributed which do not work at all in Asahi Arch?!?! If you install e.g. a dev kernel which does not boot because the NVME driver is broken and you do not have a fallback kernel you are doomed. You cannot mount the partition in macOS to fix this manually.

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