Kicked macOS to the Curb and Installed Asahi Fedora Gnome

Most of the switching posts are from frustrated windows users making the jump. I’m already a Linux user on my server (Ubuntu for now, going Debian at some point) and a 2014 iMac for tinkering/testing (KDE Neon), and a couple of raspberry pis (raspberry pi os headless) but our main household computer is an M1 Mac mini that my...

TCB13, (edited ) to linux in Kicked macOS to the Curb and Installed Asahi Fedora Gnome
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macOS just refuses to mount my USB 3 drives. I have a 1T seagate ssd and a 3T WD hdd (both exFat) and it just flat out refuses to see them.

I have to re-boot to actually use the extension. I reboot, and it throws the enable extension warning again. Fucking infuriating.

However today was the last straw as a task that should have taken me maybe 15 minutes took two hours of fighting with macOS.

I used to love macOS. It felt so intuitive and while it was never flawless, it mostly just got the fuck out of my way so I could do the things I wanted and needed to do

Although I do agree that macOS has seen better days the things you describe look a lot like general hardware failure because macOS still doesn’t get in the way, at least not as much as Windows, and gets the job done.

Before you say that it all now runs fine under Linux so no hardware issues, consider that Linux is way more permissive with hardware failure than macOS is, you better have a look at dmesg while connecting / using the drives to see if there’s something potentially wrong there. Same goes for a log of the system boot.

Either way I don’t feel like Asahi is a viable production thing yet, it’s a great effort but USB/Thunderbolt/Displays, Microphone and in some cases speakers are still not supported. I would rather see this gaining support for those before using it.

reallyzen, to linux in #AsahiLinux: Fedora 40 now available for Apple M1/M2 machines!
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Asahi supports M1 and M2 chips because that’s what they own.

asahilinux.org/fedora/-support

M3, (and then M4) isn’t there because the cheapest hardware, the Mini, doesn’t exist with them… And also because work isn’t finished on M1/M2.

social.treehouse.systems/…/112277289414246878

The way apple sees its computer customer base now as they see their iPhone base (Must Own Latest Must Buy Shiniest), I do hope for the Asahi Linux project they don’t keep on iterating endlessly with new hardware twice a year.

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