2023-10-16 11:00:17
Asahi Linux is a GNU/Linux distribution optimized for Apple Silicon Macs, a proprietary piece of hardware that requires a lot of reverse engineering to support properly. This explains why new hardware releases require a little time before you can install this distribution alongside macOS. This is why the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro released in 2023 are now supportedjust a few months following their release.
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The developers behind this project promise support as comprehensive on these machines as on models released between 2020 and 2022. Which is no small feat, much of the hardware required new drivers, because Apple has changed almost everything between the M1 and M2 models. The webcam, for example, required a large rewrite driver written for older models. Even the speakers are handled differently, although the work has obviously been faster to manage them.
This painstaking work must also be done for each model within the range, with drivers configured differently for the 15-inch MacBook Air and for a 16-inch MacBook Pro with M2 Max chip. Only portable Macs are supported at this stage, desktop models (Mac mini, Mac Studio and Mac Pro) should follow later. And when the M2 generation is fully managed, we will have to start once more for the M3 generation which we expect during next year…
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