have an M1 MBA, got tired of macos trying to trick me into installing the AI frosted glass edition number of the year variant. Decided I’d rather risk bricking my mac than end up with a device that locks me into AI.
It works really well. I think I booted back into macos once to just grab my files to a usb and move them over to the new install (you can’t remove it, you just get a separate partition for asahi and it has the ability to autoboot to asahi).
I have faced 2 issues in the entire time, and one of them I half had with macos.
usb c to display out is just not here. like at all. on macos, I could get it to work, but sometimes I needed to replug in a cable, or restart the monitor, and then it was stable, but it really took away the whole seemless 1 cable to have a docked setup simplicity I hoped for.
I had a failed install once. Honestly might not even be related to Asahi. I don’t know how the deeper kernel stuff works. Was getting total black screen on boot. no signs of life but my backlit keyboard after the Uboot logo and stuff. But after being scared it got bricked, I slept on it, looked up how to get a terminal up, tried it. It worked. I had to translate the key combo and hold down the fn key to properly hit F2 but it worked. I updated from the terminal, it did a total reupdate, reboot, and bang, worked like a charm after that.
I have not upgraded to asahi 45 yet. kinda haven’t wanted to hear my mac make its reboot sound twice like I have to for every update, but I have trust it’ll work. No urgency though since no usb c display out, which is my only real desire in an update (aside from reg security patches)
have an M1 MBA, got tired of macos trying to trick me into installing the AI frosted glass edition number of the year variant. Decided I’d rather risk bricking my mac than end up with a device that locks me into AI.
It works really well. I think I booted back into macos once to just grab my files to a usb and move them over to the new install (you can’t remove it, you just get a separate partition for asahi and it has the ability to autoboot to asahi).
I have faced 2 issues in the entire time, and one of them I half had with macos.
usb c to display out is just not here. like at all. on macos, I could get it to work, but sometimes I needed to replug in a cable, or restart the monitor, and then it was stable, but it really took away the whole seemless 1 cable to have a docked setup simplicity I hoped for.
I had a failed install once. Honestly might not even be related to Asahi. I don’t know how the deeper kernel stuff works. Was getting total black screen on boot. no signs of life but my backlit keyboard after the Uboot logo and stuff. But after being scared it got bricked, I slept on it, looked up how to get a terminal up, tried it. It worked. I had to translate the key combo and hold down the fn key to properly hit F2 but it worked. I updated from the terminal, it did a total reupdate, reboot, and bang, worked like a charm after that.
I have not upgraded to asahi 45 yet. kinda haven’t wanted to hear my mac make its reboot sound twice like I have to for every update, but I have trust it’ll work. No urgency though since no usb c display out, which is my only real desire in an update (aside from reg security patches)
edit: here is a link to the device support: https://asahilinux.org/fedora/#device-support