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Fedora Asahi Remix Officially Released for Apple Silicon Macs (9to5linux.com)

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Announced in early August and initially planned for the end of the month, the Fedora Asahi Remix distribution is finally here for those who want to install the Fedora Linux operating system on their Apple Silicon Macs.

The distro is based on the latest Fedora Linux 39 release and ships with the KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS desktop environment by default, using Wayland.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Haven't dug into it yet, but if that's right then not great. Then again if something doesn't break quickly in electronics it usually works fine for years, except maybe overheated GPUs, random RAM and HDDs.

I'm still unsure if I want to replace my 2016 Asus zenbook. Other than the aged CPU/AGPU from Intel, and unusable from the start touchpad it's fine.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

When m1 came out, some tech guy on twitter did a review of MacBook Pro and studio storage. Apple literally used components that are so bad they had to disable data safety protocols to go above HDD speeds. The end result was that losing power is likely to corrupt your data.

Besides that apple was cutting out "unnecessary" parts of the arm specification in order to cut costs. The result is that the first 2(?) generations have hardware level exploit "m1racles" on top of others like "pacman".

I really wouldn't trust them to last

[–] stetech 3 points 6 months ago

Funnily enough, that person you mentioned who discovered that was marcan, one of the Asahi lead developers.