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Wait, there's a distro for macs? I need one of those.
Last I looked months ago, all I remember seeing was "you can load linux, but it's hard and you might lose the mac forever."
ARM macs, specifically. M series.
I used it as an almost daily driver from April 2024 through June of this year. Only reason I gave up was I had to keep whitelisting updates and changes in our siem because it started freaking out about the unknown hardware when I'd get on the network at a client site. Otherwise a solid bit of work.
Would 'it' be Asahi? I'll check it out. I'm not quite sure what my needs are yet; I have a gifted work laptop that needs some purpose other than the paperweight it is now, but Asahi might do it.
Yes, asahi on a 8Gb/256 Mac book air. I gave it like 80Gb during setup and that was plenty. At the time microphone, display port and fingerprint didn't work, but I think even the mic works now. Had to fight with a little to get display link (apple's video out is special) so it would play nice on some docks, besides that battery was solid, and it just worked.
I think it's still pretty experimental. There have almost always been linux distros for macs, I had it installed on a colorful powerpc imac back in the day.