Since my previous post, I haven’t posted about Asahi Linux. This is for a simple reason: I wasn’t using it. I never took the time to set up a tiling window manager, get dropbox working, and all the things I felt I needed, and I slipped back to using my trusty Dell Ubuntu laptop for Linux, and using my MacBook M1 just for macOS.

But then I tried again! And wow, has Asahi Linux changed! It’s Fedora, not Arch now, and installation was much easier! So I wanted to share how my experience has gone. I’m not particularly stoked to spend too much time on sysadmin tasks for my personal computing, so this is more a narrative about what actually has happened in my adjustment to it, rather than a reflection of Asahi at its best, but I thought I’d share where I was at.

I bought my M1 Mac over a year ago with the intention of installing Asahi Linux on it, but I never got around to it until now. I am still thrilled to be using an ARM workstation made by a major computer manufacturer, and it’s good to be able to run the operating system of my choice on it (though macOS is acceptable for entertainment and video calls, Linux is what I work and do my organization in). And I don’t particularly do GPU-intensive things in my day to day computing – I run XMonad, of all things! – so I don’t really feel like I’m missing out by not having a “proper” graphics driver.