Ewen Bell 📸<p>Regular reminder for anyone who might have an Apple Silicon based Mac that Asahi Linux is a thing and a good thing. It's not just Intel Macs that can play nice with Linux.</p><p>I love my little M1 Macbook Air. It's great hardware and never gets overheated. But sometimes I need to play with Linux instead of MacOS.</p><p>Asahi installation was able to hive off a small partition during setup to dual-boot. It's very smooth and makes for a great desktop. I've got Firefox and LibreOffice and even Proton VPN running nice. It's ready for prime time.</p><p>Am sending this toot from Asahi Linux right now :)</p><p><a href="https://asahilinux.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://asahilinux.org/</a></p><p><a class="hashtag" href="https://social.ewenbell.com/tag/asahilinux" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AsahiLinux</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.ewenbell.com/tag/linux" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linux</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.ewenbell.com/tag/linuxonmac" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LinuxOnMac</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.ewenbell.com/tag/applesilicon" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AppleSilicon</a></p>
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Oliver Giel · GIEL Bildwelten<p>So, nächstes <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> Testprojekt gestartet.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ubuntu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ubuntu</span></a> auf einer zweiten Partition neben <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MacOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MacOS</span></a> auf meinem <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MacBook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MacBook</span></a> installiert. </p><p>Bisher läuft das alles sauber und macht eine ziemlich guten Eindruck. Also wenn man nicht auf eine spezielle Software angewiesen ist, die unter Linux nicht läuft, gibt es kaum einen Grund den Schritt zu Linux nicht zu wagen.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linuxonmac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linuxonmac</span></a></p>
Photo Ewen 📷<p>Asahi Linux uses DNF. It's essentially Fedora with the extra trimmings to make it Apple Silicon friendly.</p><p>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.</p><p>Now just need to convince UpNote that Linux also runs on non-Intel hardware.</p><p><a href="https://photog.social/tags/AsahiLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AsahiLinux</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/LinuxOnMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinuxOnMac</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/Upnote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Upnote</span></a></p>
Photo Ewen 📷<p>Asahi Linux is working very nicely on my little M1 MacBook Air. I wanted a clean environment that I could trust as secure.</p><p>Maybe I'll be inspired to spend a little more time writing code, updating the website, and tinkering with some FOSS.</p><p>It's very fast. Very clean. Mastodon looks peachy in my Firefox browser too :)</p><p><a href="https://asahilinux.org/about/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">asahilinux.org/about/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://photog.social/tags/AsahiLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AsahiLinux</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/LinuxOnMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinuxOnMac</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/FOSSisGood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSSisGood</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/AppleSilicon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AppleSilicon</span></a></p>
Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome:<p>Asahi Linux founder Hector Martin resigns over kernel conflict, community putting too much pressure on him, burnout:<br><a href="https://ostechnix.com/asahi-linux-founder-hector-martin-resigns-over-kernel-conflicts/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ostechnix.com/asahi-linux-foun</span><span class="invisible">der-hector-martin-resigns-over-kernel-conflicts/</span></a><br>(Unfortunately this toxicity is pretty common nowadays in the Linux and FOSS community. All this political nonsense (making projects overly political, and on the on the other hand, abusing devs because of their political opinion), users taking things for granted, don't appreciating devs' hard work (don't forget that the vast majority of them do it in their spare time!), saying that this and that software sucks and nobody should use them (like many (or a few loud?) KDE users do with GNOME, or Arch fanboys with other distros) just because they personally don't like those software (if you're not one of them, cheers to you, otherwise please try to think with the head of the GNOME, Debian etc. devs, how do they feel when they see such toxicity). And no, I don't say that criticism shouldn't be expressed, but it should be constructive, and not like "this software sucks arse because only that other software satisfies my needs" or "these woke/Nazi devs should frick off")<br>(The Linux kernel project is a dumpsterfire these days, with C vs Rust wars and other nonsense, that doesn't help either)</p><p>Linux kernel 6.14 RC2 available with KVM improvements, file system updates, networking fixes, graphics (DRM) fixes, changes in Apple Silicon kernel maintenance:<br><a href="https://ostechnix.com/linux-kernel-6-14-rc2-released/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ostechnix.com/linux-kernel-6-1</span><span class="invisible">4-rc2-released/</span></a></p><p>Wine 10.1 released with root certificate fixes for Battle.net, Bluetooth driver enhancements, bug fixes:<br><a href="https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/2/wine-10-1-brings-root-certificates-fixes-for-battle-net-and-bluetooth-driver-enhancements/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">alternativeto.net/news/2025/2/</span><span class="invisible">wine-10-1-brings-root-certificates-fixes-for-battle-net-and-bluetooth-driver-enhancements/</span></a></p><p>Post 2/4</p><p><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/WeeklyNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WeeklyNews</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/LinuxNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinuxNews</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/AsahiLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AsahiLinux</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/LinuxOnMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinuxOnMac</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/LinuxOnAppleSilicon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinuxOnAppleSilicon</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/LinuxKernel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinuxKernel</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Wine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wine</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/FosseryTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FosseryTech</span></a></p>
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