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Because the hardware is good, and some people want to run Linux instead of macOS on it.
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I switched to an M1 Air back at the beginning of 2021, was on Linux (desktop machine) about a decade before that. It's basically purely a work machine (software and management). The hardware is amazing. The battery life is astounding. The software, in almost every area, is inferior to my experience in Linux. The Apple parts generally worst of all (only Microsoft Office on it is worse). In the end, I'm probably 70% as…
By 4k monitor do you mean a high DPI monitor? Not much has changed in regards to resolution support, that should always have been fine, but a lot has changed in regards to high DPI support with Wayland now having "real" (direct) fractional scaling which makes it even better at approaching the problem than macOS which has "fake" (render and scale) fractional scaling. KDE Plasma and QT apps (the default desktop environ…
On Linux, I plugged in the 4k and everything is tiny tiny tiny. I tried to make it a little bigger, and some stuff grows, other stuff doesn't, and some stuff just broke. Then in the end I was sort of stuck in this weird frankenstein of settings that looked like crap on any monitor. Like I said, this was over 3 years ago and the Linux install was very old at that point (I think it was a Linux Mint based on 18.04 at the latest, possibly even 16.04 still).
Mac has a slider that changes the scaling of everything, smoothly and all at once.
I probably should have just gotten a bigger 4k
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Why do we care? Ashai Linux is obviously a high-IQ effort and we are very fortunate they are motivated to work on this instead of something else (like ML)
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"Asahi's most recent update blog post, published in mid-January, highlighted HDMI support, support for DRM-protected websites via Google's proprietary Widevine package, Touchbar support for the handful of Apple Silicon Macs that use one, and more."
Seems odd to me that a Linux open source focused something would spend so much effort on supporting DRM over USB3 functionality. So for them to go that direction implies to me they have good reasons. Are they trying to satisfy users? My knee jerk reaction would be the users willing to use this would be accepting of not supporting DRM.
I switched to an M1 Air back at the beginning of 2021, was on Linux (desktop machine) about a decade before that. It's basically purely a work machine (software and management). The hardware is amazing. The battery life is astounding. The software, in almost every area, is inferior to my experience in Linux. The Apple parts generally worst of all (only Microsoft Office on it is worse). In the end, I'm probably 70% as…