HACKER Q&A
📣 jiwidi

Anyone daily driving Asahi Linux for work?


How is the support, stability and daily task performance? Battery? GPU Support for video playback or still in CPU?

I always look back at my old acer laptop with arch and i3 as my most productive environment but couldn't daily run it at work as every now and then screen sharing or video wouldnt work due to driver update and stall a meeting.

  👤 nextos Accepted Answer ✓
ARM is a bit messy on Linux, even on Snapdragon X, due to the lack of standardized boot among other things.

Given that new Intel and AMD options are much less power hungry, is going the ARM route worth the trouble?

With that said, on M2 Macs, every basic feature works, except microphone support. But there are still some annoyances like having to keep a macOS partition.

👤 dyingkneepad
As much as I admire the herculean efforts of the people involved to make these things work, my policy is to only ever use hardware where the drivers are actually supported/paid for by the hardware manufacturers.

I mean, even when using paid-for drivers we encounter a lot of trouble, I don't want to live in this world there the HW manufacturer doesn't care about my usage.

I'll stay with Intel Graphics. It works just fine. If I report bugs, someone who is getting paid to fix those bugs will read my report and try to address it.

👤 talldayo
No but I've daily driven GNOME/Wayland on my Intel Macbook without issue for 3 years now. Docker Just Works, package management isn't protracted torture, and I even get a really nifty M.2 drive for when my internal storage fails one day.