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Fedora Asahi Remix first impressions

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Re: Fedora Asahi Remix first impressions

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Post by imdoor »

kaba0 wrote: post #49
imdoor wrote: post #35

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Doesn't match my experience at all. I love that packages are always up to date. Also, in my experience, having a rolling release cycle leads to significantly fewer issues than having to upgrade everything at once. Using Arch has been a net time saver for me compared to something like Ubuntu where I've wasted a lot of time fighting package upgrade issues and trying to get newer package versions than the distro provide…

These two are not the only two options: the nix model is clearly superior and is not as error prone as each.

I use Nix on an ARM single-board computer to host a personal Matrix homeserver (and a bunch of bridges), and I absolutely love it. It's invaluable to have a reproducible specification of the whole system, including custom software to build, in a single place.

That being said, for day to day stuff Arch (and Nix standalone) works well enough for me, to be weary of switching my daily driver PC to Nix, out of the fear of dealing with unforeseen issues and maybe encountering less well maintained packages (there's always something broken on Nix unstable, but maybe it's not an issue for more popular stuff). So I'm sticking to Arch for non-servers for now.

Re: Fedora Asahi Remix first impressions

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Post by coldtea »

valianteffort wrote: post #15

I have never used Fedora, I use Arch on my desktop and really enjoyed it on my macbook. It's kind of sad the Arch developers didn't want to put more effort into supporting alarm. If Arch is totally dropped by Asahi team it's unlikely I'll continue using linux on my macbook at all. I just have better things to do than manage multiple distros.

Why would you have to "manage" them? Install it, then use it.

Re: Fedora Asahi Remix first impressions

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Post by coldtea »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #57
starlevel003 wrote: post #51

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nix is so clearly superior and yet nobody uses it. curious!

> nix is so clearly superior and yet nobody uses it. curious! If you're going to be snide, you should at least be correct - or are the 6300 users in the main matrix chat room just hanging out for fun? (sent from my nixos daily driver)

It's not like 6300 is anything but statistical noise compared to the number of Linux users out there.

Re: Fedora Asahi Remix first impressions

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Post by [deleted] »

TillE wrote: post #60
rekoil wrote: post #33

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AFAIK, the main Arch Linux project isn't very interested in supporting the ARM architecture at all. This decision probably has more to do with that than anything else.

Arch is unusual in that it's x86-64 only, so going from 1 to 2 is probably a lot harder than other distros just adding the nth new architecture.

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Re: Fedora Asahi Remix first impressions

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Post by IshKebab »

jasoneckert wrote: post #19
extr wrote: post #16

What's the status of sleep mode/battery life/trackpad feel on Asahi at this point? Last time I tried it those were the biggest blockers.

You can find all that information here: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support I will say the the battery life on my Mac Studio sucks - as soon as I unplug it from power, it turns off.

It doesn't really say if the trackpad works properly there and I didn't see anything about battery life.

Frankly I find this statement from the blog post extremely hard to believe:

> All the hardware works

Really? The webcam? Touchpad gestures? Fingerprint reader? Bluetooth? Thunderbolt?

Re: Fedora Asahi Remix first impressions

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

coldtea wrote: post #63
yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> nix is so clearly superior and yet nobody uses it. curious! If you're going to be snide, you should at least be correct - or are the 6300 users in the main matrix chat room just hanging out for fun? (sent from my nixos daily driver)

It's not like 6300 is anything but statistical noise compared to the number of Linux users out there.

The number of Arch Linux users is nothing but statistical noise compared to the number of Windows users; would you say that nobody uses Arch?

Re: Fedora Asahi Remix first impressions

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

olliej wrote: post #52
jamespo wrote: post #40

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Do you help Debian then?

I'm guessing not, unless they consider using it and possibly complaining "helping".

Guessing based on what, the assumption that people who complain never do anything useful? I won't speak for others, but I've submitted bug reports and patches to other distros and also avoid RH projects.

Re: Fedora Asahi Remix first impressions

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Post by totallywrong »

valianteffort wrote: post #15

I have never used Fedora, I use Arch on my desktop and really enjoyed it on my macbook. It's kind of sad the Arch developers didn't want to put more effort into supporting alarm. If Arch is totally dropped by Asahi team it's unlikely I'll continue using linux on my macbook at all. I just have better things to do than manage multiple distros.

I love Arch, don't even know how many years I used it. But Fedora really is more polished, if only because it's the distribution with more paid contributors, by far. I suggest you give it a go. Also, in practical terms, Fedora has better ARM support.
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