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You can get a used M1 mini for more or less 400€. Get a glimpse of whats going on in your local facebook marketplace, most likely you'll come up with nice offers.
You must be kidding right? Who on earth would sell for 400?
Its been more than a year I'm running asahi on my macbook air and I can't stress how grateful I feel for enjoying such wonderful freedom. I don't feel like ever going back to x86 to be honest, at this point there is nothing lacking or unable to run and when the neural engine drivers come online now that the GPU is starting to mature people will be able to juice out every last bit of computation this machine is capabl…
> at this point there is nothing lacking or unable to run Sure there is. You just haven't run into it yourself. Faster, cooler and more power efficient hardware is great. I just don't think that it makes up for depending on a small team of volunteers to resolve all hardware issues in an ecosystem hostile to OSS, which might break at any point Apple decides to do so. And the incompatibilities with ARM are not negligib…
Namely?
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Sorry it didn't work for you. I would recommend anyone buying at notebook to get one with linux pre-installed. I did that because I want to use this thing, not futz with it. I'm assuming you're using Asahi Linux on your Macs (though you said you wouldn't touch it..). The lack of hardware diversity should make comparability easier, even if everything need to be reversed engineered. I get 6 hours or so on my machine. I…
What ryzen laptop is this that you keep referencing? The negative experiences with the thinkpad are typical of all the intel laptops I have recently used, preloaded OS (including Windows, and to a lesser extent, Linux and MacOS), or not. Whenever I look for an AMD laptop, it has a low resolution (1080p) display, and/or an off-center keyboard/trackpad (or has some other obvious fatal flaw). I'm typing this on an M2 ma…
Laptop displays are also a common frustration, though this has been improving lately. Still too many models stuck on 16:9 aspect ratio though, which is suboptimal for anything but watching movies due to lack of vertical real estate. By the time you've factored in all the taskbars, titlebars, toolbars, menubars, tab bars, and status bars you've got a keyhole left to peer through. This is less of a problem for those using something like i3 or Sway where half of those bars are hidden but tiling WMs just aren't my thing.
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Not sure why you're fixated on the whole Linux kernel - we're talking about a small pool of volunteers supporting complex modules. There are good laptops out there other than Macs... Lenovo, HP, Dell, etc all have offerings which are supported out of the box by Linux because they aren't using their own hardware or do contribute the necessary code to run FOSS OSs. I'm not asking you to now dump your Mac. That'd be sil…
> There are good laptops out there other than Macs... Lenovo, HP, Dell, etc all have offerings which are supported out of the box by Linux because they aren't using their own hardware or do contribute the necessary code to run FOSS OSs. For the love of all that is holy, name one model that has the following properties: - 6 hours real life battery doing C++ development work. - 7+ days suspend battery life - 99.99% suc…
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For running x86-64 on arm you have FEX. You can combine FEX with wine to run standard steam games on Asahi linux.
Wow, excellent. I'm trying to justify replacing a 2015 desktop with either a mac studio or a ryzen/zen4 desktop. I'm not a gamer, but do occasionally fire up steam to play something old like Xcom 2 or Majesty. Knowing that at least some x86-64 steam games could work is promising, thanks. For me it all comes down to the extra memory bandwidth. A recent metal port of llama is pretty tempting and being able to run GPU a…
Where many steam games where tried live and debugged to run FEX + wine + Asahi GPU driver through its paces. Highlights include Portal working, Fallout NV working. Crysis running with graphical artifacts and lots of other games. The main limitation currently is simply GPU driver feature support. To run modern D3D12 games you basically need Vulkan which Asahi GPU driver doesn't support yet.
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Not sure why you're fixated on the whole Linux kernel - we're talking about a small pool of volunteers supporting complex modules. There are good laptops out there other than Macs... Lenovo, HP, Dell, etc all have offerings which are supported out of the box by Linux because they aren't using their own hardware or do contribute the necessary code to run FOSS OSs. I'm not asking you to now dump your Mac. That'd be sil…
> There are good laptops out there other than Macs... Lenovo, HP, Dell, etc all have offerings which are supported out of the box by Linux because they aren't using their own hardware or do contribute the necessary code to run FOSS OSs. For the love of all that is holy, name one model that has the following properties: - 6 hours real life battery doing C++ development work. - 7+ days suspend battery life - 99.99% suc…
Related: does anyone do development on a Mac in a Linux VM? If my dockers are already running in a VM, why not go to the next logical step?
It's really nice being able to four-finger swipe between Macos and Linux full-screen desktops when I want that.
But usually I SSH into the Linux VM so that I can use iTerm2 as my terminal, and use Mac native GUI Emacs (railwaycat & Mitsuharu Yamamoto's version) to have its graphical features working alongside my iTerm2 and Firefox.
Linux in a VM runs some things much faster than the host MacOS on the same laptop! In particular filesystem intensive builds. I found some Docker-based test system I had to use for work ran an order of magniitude faster in the Linux VM than with Docker on the Mac host.
I did test running Linux natively on this MBP (no MacOS host) but found to my surprise the battery drained faster than using it in a VM, and the VM is almost as fast. So I stick with the VM and I get to use both OSes side by side.
I don't use the VMware file sharing as it is extremely buggy and regularly corrupts files when operating on them with Git or some other activities due to buggy cache settings which cannot be set to non-buggy values.
Instead I use some crazy combination of Samba and NFS which works reasonably to get the right permissions and ownership as seen by each side of the other's files. The upshot is two-way file sharing works, but this was actually difficult to make reliable.
(I found the Mac SMB2 client is prone to occasionally deleting files that aren't even being accessed by it at all, but are in a directory where other files are being updated. A shocking bad SMB2 protocol bug in the Mac client where it sends the wrong filename for renames occasionally, using a name from a recent directory listing. It took me a year to diagnose that and I thought it must be a bug in my code in a critical Linux database application I was writing, which I didn't dare deploy upstream for all that time, because important random files like invoices and data files would occasionally disappear and be noticed days later causing me to doubt myself. That is until I did a very deep dive with every debugging tool you can imagine, to find the true cause was MacOS when I edited unrelated files, and my application had been fine all that time to deploy to prod. Solution was force MacOS to use CIFS instead of SMB2.)
I hope to replicate something like that when I get an ARM Mac at some point, though I hope the MacOS SMB bugs are fixed. Currently holding out for an M3.
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Wow, excellent. I'm trying to justify replacing a 2015 desktop with either a mac studio or a ryzen/zen4 desktop. I'm not a gamer, but do occasionally fire up steam to play something old like Xcom 2 or Majesty. Knowing that at least some x86-64 steam games could work is promising, thanks. For me it all comes down to the extra memory bandwidth. A recent metal port of llama is pretty tempting and being able to run GPU a…
Check out this stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJSfFzsU75g Where many steam games where tried live and debugged to run FEX + wine + Asahi GPU driver through its paces. Highlights include Portal working, Fallout NV working. Crysis running with graphical artifacts and lots of other games. The main limitation currently is simply GPU driver feature support. To run modern D3D12 games you basically need Vulkan whic…
Sounds like the OpenGL work can mostly be reused for improving the Vulkan driver and sounds quite promising.
Its been more than a year I'm running asahi on my macbook air and I can't stress how grateful I feel for enjoying such wonderful freedom. I don't feel like ever going back to x86 to be honest, at this point there is nothing lacking or unable to run and when the neural engine drivers come online now that the GPU is starting to mature people will be able to juice out every last bit of computation this machine is capabl…
> at this point there is nothing lacking or unable to run Sure there is. You just haven't run into it yourself. Faster, cooler and more power efficient hardware is great. I just don't think that it makes up for depending on a small team of volunteers to resolve all hardware issues in an ecosystem hostile to OSS, which might break at any point Apple decides to do so. And the incompatibilities with ARM are not negligib…
Every month that passes, with similar HN comments insisting it's a bad time... I wonder: "am I 'special' or just spoiled by nix(os/pks)". Or maybe, just maybe, people's expectations of their distros are shockingly low. And maybe rightly so at times.