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So today I bought a 9070 XT and reassembled my amd64 PC, which I retired a couple of years ago, because I really, _really_ want to play video games again without worrying about FEX or Rosetta.

So far, I have had 3 kernel oopses of various provenance. Haven't had one kernel oops on any of my Macs unless I was hacking on stuff.

The graphics card by itself sucks down over 30 W just sitting at the desktop. My entire Mac Studio idles at less than 5 W.

The fans will not shut the fuck up no matter what I do. The Mac Studio fans are never audible, even at full system utilisation.

The motherboard's DMI information is straight up just wrong, and the SuperIO chip has no hwmon driver. The Mac Studio's Devicetree is (obviously) correct, and the SMC hwmon driver works well.

The CPU pulls about 50% more power than my Mac Studio while being noticeably slower.

The motherboard's builtin audio interface is unusably bad compared even to my MacBook Air's headphone jack.

The only parts of this experience that are objectively better than using a Mac with Asahi are gaming performance (no shit, there's no emulation of history's worst instruction set involved), monitor support, which is something we're actively working on anyway, and boot time although it's close.

The whole PC ecosystem is, unbelievably, even more totally ratfucked than it was when I last abandoned it. For the money I've spent today to get back into the PC, I could've bought two whole Mac minis with change left over, or a new audio interface and calibration mic to retune some of Mac speakers that need it.

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Asahi Linux uses DNF. It's essentially Fedora with the extra trimmings to make it Apple Silicon friendly.

Managed to install ProtonVPN after translating their cryptic instructions. Their CLI example didn't work for Asahi but pretending you have Fedora gets it over the hurdle.

Now just need to convince UpNote that Linux also runs on non-Intel hardware.

Looks like M4 support for #asahilinux is going be rather painful. We’re still focusing on upstreaming M1/M2 support but other people have been trying to bring up m1n1 on M4 and it looks like a few things changed:

When configuring a macho boot object we now get dropped into an environment where Apple’s SPTM is running in GL2 and we are supposed to talk to it from EL2 with MMU already enabled to setup pagetables. This neither works for Linux nor for running XNU under our hypervisor to reverse engineer the new hardware.

When configuring a raw boot object we’re dropped into EL2 with GL2 and most (all?) Apple specific extensions disabled. This is totally fine for Linux but we can’t run XNU under our hypervisor that we use to reverse engineer the hardware in this state. This also seems to be broken for >=15.2 right now because it probably isn’t very well tested 😕

The cool thing I always find with reading up on #AsahiLinux's progress reports is the often, "elegant" solutions required/implemented by #Apple for their hardware, and the Asahi Linux team reverse engineering and reimplementing it, bringing some of that "elegance" and brilliantly engineered/designed solutions over to #Linux (perhaps in a better way, working with retrospect and all).

Honestly this project is a win-win for a lot of parties - again, the (incredibly talented) Asahi team is able to replicate/reiterate on some of these brilliant designs Apple's done and bring them to Linux, Apple has been receiving important reports of some well hidden bugs found by the Asahi team throughout their development, and
#Rust is becoming increasingly more present in the Linux kernel which as I've grown to understand is a very important "fight". Heck, this project has even brought to light some of the nasty parts of the Linux (development) community that a lot of users wouldn't have known about, that critically needs fixing.

🔗 https://asahilinux.org/2025/03/progress-report-6-14

asahilinux.orgProgress Report: Linux 6.14 - Asahi Linux

Hallo Zusammen, ich bin #neuhier.
Der Name ist Justin, ich arbeite als #daten -Ingenieur, bin in der #jugendvertretung und #aktiv in der #IGM Jugend.

Außerhalb von Beruf und #ehrenamt widme ich mich meinem eigenen Server #selfhosting
ich begeistert mich für #opensource #klimaschutz , #demokratie und #datenschutz

Ich fahre viel #fahrrad und ernähre mich #vegetarisch

Mein Setup:
#grapheneos on #googlepixel
#docker_compose on #homelab
#asahilinux on #macbook m1

Anregungen gerne gesehen :)

Fedora Asahi Remix 41 is available now!

Thank you to the @AsahiLinux project for the improvement to gaming that is landing with this update. You will also see a new Calamares-based initial setup wizard. Try it out!

Learn more: fedoramagazine.org/fedora-asah

Fedora Magazine · Fedora Asahi Remix 41 is now available - Fedora MagazineAnnouncing the availability of Fedora Asahi Remix 41

How does anyone use #Gnome? I decided to give it a shot on my #asahilinux install this morning, and that lasted... 5 minutes. Scaling, choice of 100% or 200%. There's a reason why I have #cosmicde set at 75% (80 would be better, but not available). And then there's the question of how you move between work spaces, and finally it borked my #signal install so that I now have to open it from the terminal.
#linux

Today we're announcing a huge leap in gaming for Apple Silicon - you can now play AAA games on Fedora Asahi Remix!

The Fedora Asahi SIG is grateful to work closely with the @AsahiLinux project on making this possible.

This work leads the way for us to enable gaming on all Fedora Arm systems down the line!

Learn more: fedoramagazine.org/gaming-on-f

Fedora Magazine · Gaming on Fedora Asahi Remix - Fedora MagazineBetter support for gaming on Fedora Asahi with the game playing toolkit