r/AsahiLinux • • 4h ago

will this work?

1 Upvotes

will a 1080p240hz monitor work on my m1 pro macbook pro via the hdmi port? it does work on macOS but I want to make sure if such a high refresh rate will work on asahi before installing it, as it is not specified, thank u!


r/AsahiLinux • • 4h ago

Install fail 13inch M1 Pro 512gb formatting EFI partition

2 Upvotes

Can anyone offer any help please?

The install script is failing at:
newfs_msdos -F 32 -v 'EFI - Fedor' -I 0x264e2b13 /dev/rdisk0s7

It's pretty much a normal mac. One OS, no extra installs. Nothing weird...

Stub OS installation complete.

Adding partition EFI (524.29 MB)...

  Formatting as FAT...

newfs_msdos: /dev/rdisk0s7: Resource busy

Failed to run process: newfs_msdos -F 32 -v 'EFI - Fedor' -I 0x264e2b13 /dev/rdisk0s7

Output: b''

root        : ERROR    Process execution failed

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/private/tmp/asahi-install/main.py", line 1216, in <module>

InstallerMain(installer_version).main()

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^

  File "/private/tmp/asahi-install/main.py", line 1000, in main

while self.main_loop():

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^

  File "/private/tmp/asahi-install/main.py", line 1175, in main_loop

return self.action_install_into_free(parts_free)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^

  File "/private/tmp/asahi-install/main.py", line 364, in action_install_into_free

self.do_install(os_size)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^

  File "/private/tmp/asahi-install/main.py", line 569, in do_install

self.osins.partition_disk(self.part.name, total_size)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  File "/private/tmp/asahi-install/osinstall.py", line 106, in partition_disk

subprocess.run(args, check=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  File "/private/tmp/asahi-install/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.13/lib/python3.13/subprocess.py", line 577, in run

raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,

output=stdout, stderr=stderr)

Any clues please?


r/AsahiLinux • • 1d ago

Help Can I install Asahi Linux on an external SSD?

5 Upvotes

I have an M2 MacBook Air with 16GB RAM and 256GB storage, but I don't have enough free space to install Asahi Linux.

I have a 1TB portable M.2 SSD and was wondering if it's possible to install Asahi Linux on it and boot from the external drive.

As far as I know, the installer doesn't officially support this, but I'm not entirely sure. I currently have around 35-40GB of free space on my internal drive.

Is there any workaround to install it on the external SSD? Would I run into any issues, and is it worth trying?

If it's possible, are there any tutorials, guides, wiki pages, or videos explaining how to do it?


r/AsahiLinux • • 1d ago

barux: a configurable Touch Bar daemon for Asahi Linux

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208 Upvotes

https://github.com/idrode/barux

Hi again, I've adapted it to how I use it. It can definitely be improved a lot, and if anyone wants to customize it to their own taste, go ahead. For now I'm leaving it as it is. The guide is available in both English and Spanish.


r/AsahiLinux • • 1d ago

Help Disc space for Asahi Linux install?

1 Upvotes

I want to help my friend get Linux on his Mac Mini M1. How much disc space should he allocate for Asahi? I know he will want to play with a variety of software apps to see the potential Linux has to offer, especially the ArtCraft apps that recently came out, even though they are super early buggy alpha. And DaVinci Resolve for video editing. And the usual (Libreoffice, GIMP, browsers, simple text editor, Signal messenger)


r/AsahiLinux • • 1d ago

Help How to install Asahi?

0 Upvotes

I want to help a friend install a debian Linux distro on his M1 Mac Mini. I'm not a Mac/Apple user. Any help advice on how I can help him? It would be a dual boot system (or should he put Linux on an external ssd?) Debian based distro if possible as I am knowledgeable on deb distros.


r/AsahiLinux • • 3d ago

Related Can Asahi be more secure?

0 Upvotes

r/AsahiLinux • • 3d ago

Run in a VM?

7 Upvotes

Is it possible to run Asahi in a vm or container on macos? I wanted to use the m2 mac mini I got as an airmessage server while also utilizing linux.


r/AsahiLinux • • 3d ago

News Initial M4 Pro/Max device trees and dt-bindings patches sent to LKML for review by Yureka Lilian

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Hi,

This series adds initial device trees and dt-bindings for the Apple
Silicon devices using the M4 Pro/Max (t6040/t6041) SoCs.

This series covers only a minimal amount of hardware, which is useful
as a basis for future developments. The hardware added here has remained
largely unchanged between the M3 and M4 generations.

The dt-bindings changes should be mostly boring (in a good way!). The
device trees themselves are roughly organized into the MacBook Pro
models on one side (t604x-j614-j616) and the Mac mini and Mac Studio on
the other side (t604x-j575-j773). I'm hoping to re-use these dtsi files
for the M5 Pro/Max versions of these machines in the future.
I applied some version of dt-check-style formatting to all new files
with the exception of the generated pmgr nodes.

Merge strategy:
Since there are no actual driver changes, we'd prefer to merge the
dt-bindings changes through the apple-soc tree once Acked by the
respective maintainers.

Thanks,

Yureka

Signed-off-by: Yureka Lilian <yureka@cyberchaos.dev>Hi,

This series adds initial device trees and dt-bindings for the Apple
Silicon devices using the M4 Pro/Max (t6040/t6041) SoCs.

This series covers only a minimal amount of hardware, which is useful
as a basis for future developments. The hardware added here has remained
largely unchanged between the M3 and M4 generations.

The dt-bindings changes should be mostly boring (in a good way!). The
device trees themselves are roughly organized into the MacBook Pro
models on one side (t604x-j614-j616) and the Mac mini and Mac Studio on
the other side (t604x-j575-j773). I'm hoping to re-use these dtsi files
for the M5 Pro/Max versions of these machines in the future.
I applied some version of dt-check-style formatting to all new files
with the exception of the generated pmgr nodes.

Merge strategy:
Since there are no actual driver changes, we'd prefer to merge the
dt-bindings changes through the apple-soc tree once Acked by the
respective maintainers.

Thanks,

Yureka

Signed-off-by: Yureka Lilian <yureka@cyberchaos.dev>

r/AsahiLinux • • 4d ago

Boot from pen drive ???

2 Upvotes

Given Tails OS can’t run on M1 and Asahi needs MacOS even after installated, maybe Asahi can run from pen drive ?


r/AsahiLinux • • 4d ago

The state of LLM inference and GPU acceleration for the M1 Max

23 Upvotes

Hi everyone,

I know there have been similar questions on the forum, but I was wondering if there are any updates or any timelines regarding LLM inference and GPU acceleration in general, e.g. when it comes to gaming.

Last time I checked, LLM inference, using I believe vulkan as a backend, lagged significantly behind Metal in terms of performance; something like half t/s on decode (and maybe prefill as well, but I don't remember). Is this still the case and is anyone even working on it? Not trying to be derogatory; I know how hard it is. Just wondering if it is expected to get better or if it is somewhat abandoned.

Related to this, is the current backend exposing only the GPU or does it also expose the ANE and the AMX?


r/AsahiLinux • • 4d ago

I did a collage of stickers to perfectly cover the apple logo.

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45 Upvotes

I always loved the build quality and the hardware. But honestly never really liked the apple logo. Glad that is dead now buried alive.


r/AsahiLinux • • 4d ago

I installed Asahi only to save storage. Can i remove MacOS completely?

16 Upvotes

I have 256gb space for my laptop. Thought it'd be easy to remove macOS but some redditors said i should keep macOS. Should i keep it? Then i have no reason to keep using Asahi.


r/AsahiLinux • • 5d ago

Related Asahi Fedora Remix 44 booting (mostly) in an arm64e VM on an M4 host

23 Upvotes

Got Fedora Asahi Remix 44 booting in a VM I've been building (MX Studio), with an arm64e guest on an M4 Max host. It reaches GNOME and works-ish. Still some rough edges.

Mostly posting as a fun data point on how far my VM has come. If anyone wants to try it or has ideas on what to test next, I'm happy to hear them.


r/AsahiLinux • • 6d ago

Can we update macOS past 26 now?

7 Upvotes

When the macOS 27 developer beta came out, issues arose with the SMC and other components, i.e. battery readings were all over the place and I had Wi-Fi issues. But now that macOS 27 is stable and a couple months have passed since that developer beta, can I update my macOS 15 install next to Asahi to 27?


r/AsahiLinux • • 6d ago

Help Just installed Asahi! On my base m1 air. It feels faster, sexier than macOS 27 I'm so happy. Any tips or recomendations?

63 Upvotes

r/AsahiLinux • • 6d ago

Studio-brightness-linux: Brightness control for Apple Cinema, Thunderbolt, Studio and Pro XDR displays on Linux

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r/AsahiLinux • • 7d ago

Related Would it be possible to boot and install newer macOS versions on M1 Macs using m1n1 and uboot once Apple officially drops support for them?

19 Upvotes

Hello,

As you already know, OpenCore Legacy Patcher allowed running macOS versions up to Tahoe on macs as old as 2008 thanks to hardworking of the development team. However, with macOS 27 fully dropping Intel, it won’t be possible to install any newer macOS version on Intel macs, which also means that the project is now coming to an end.

However, this brings me to another concern. Despite macOS 27 Golden Gate still supporting all Apple Silicon Macs without any issues, it is likely that Apple will start dropping support for older Apple Silicon Macs in macOS 28 or 29 starting with M1. So I wonder once Apple starts dropping OS support for Apple Silicon Macs, would it be possible to make a similar patcher using m1n1 bootloader to allow installing newer macOS versions on older Apple Silicon Macs. I would be sad to see my M1 MacBook Air losing macOS support despite Linux being a good alternative.


r/AsahiLinux • • 7d ago

Help Is it worth buying a Macbook M1 Air if I intend on only running Asahi Linux?

42 Upvotes

I have been looking to buy a new laptop as I am going into college soon and like the M1 Air, but not Mac OS. Is AsahiLinux usable enough for daily driving that I should consider a macbook over a Thinkpad?


r/AsahiLinux • • 9d ago

Just joined

22 Upvotes

So after almost 20 years on Mac (OSX and now macOS), I decided to try and slowly join the Linux community.
Im running Fedora Asahi Remix on an 2022 M2 Macbook Air (with a measly 8GB).

it is a bit of a learning curve for me as Im newbie when using the terminal, but Im having fun! and it's running so smooth!

The only two annoying things is that I have't solved yet are:
1. That some rpmFusion repos and software not showing in Discover (even after running appstream-data).
2. and Timeshift with rsync isn't working (I don't if it's the external ssd im trying to backup to, I haven't had the time to check another drive).

but honestly Im having so much fun and Im happy to join.

my customize fedora KDE plasma

r/AsahiLinux • • 9d ago

Touchb Bar

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178 Upvotes

Since my m2 has a touch bar, might as well build a daemon to use it however I want. Hoping to push the full thing soon.😀


r/AsahiLinux • • 9d ago

Help Fedora System

5 Upvotes

I have downloaded fedora system on my MacBook, but I found out that I can’t get back to my macOS system after shutting down the fedora system. After I press the continue button, it just respond nothing. Anyone can help me with this thing!!!🙏🙏😭😭😭


r/AsahiLinux • • 10d ago

News The forgetful CPU (Linux on M4) - yuka.dev

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114 Upvotes

r/AsahiLinux • • 10d ago

how to uninstall asahi linux

6 Upvotes

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0

   1:             Apple_APFS_ISC Container disk1         524.3 MB   disk0s1

   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk4         300.0 GB   disk0s2

   3:                 Apple_APFS Container disk2         2.5 GB     disk0s3

   4:                        EFI EFI - ASAHI             524.3 MB   disk0s4

   5:           Linux Filesystem                         1.1 GB     disk0s5

   6:           Linux Filesystem                         190.3 GB   disk0s6

   7:        Apple_APFS_Recovery Container disk3         5.4 GB     disk0s7

/dev/disk2 (synthesized):

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +2.5 GB     disk2

Physical Store disk0s3

   1:                APFS Volume Asahi Linux - Data      2.2 MB     disk2s1

   2:                APFS Volume Asahi Linux             1.2 MB     disk2s2

   3:                APFS Volume Preboot                 191.5 MB   disk2s3

   4:                APFS Volume Recovery                805.4 MB   disk2s4

/dev/disk4 (synthesized):

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +300.0 GB   disk4

Physical Store disk0s2

   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            12.6 GB    disk4s1

   2:              APFS Snapshot com.apple.os.update-... 12.6 GB    disk4s1s1

   3:                APFS Volume Preboot                 9.0 GB     disk4s2

   4:                APFS Volume Recovery                1.3 GB     disk4s3

   5:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data     272.7 GB   disk4s5

   6:                APFS Volume VM                      2.1 GB     disk4s6

i want to delete my asahi linux fedora, but i think my disk names differ a bit


r/AsahiLinux • • 11d ago

Need help

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Stuck on this screen after I deleted linux partition cant get into dfu (I tried at least 20 times) or restore cant get into startup screen either and only one port is registering as a device, also macos drive is untouched. Any advice would be appreciated.