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Re:Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max by JimBlackwood on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @01:02PM (#34416044)
I think you’d be surprised!

I have a Dell Workstation from work (Specifically a Linux supported one, whatever that means) using linux and my personal Macbook Air M1 is running Asahi Linux.

I really ran into no issues, the experience was almost scarily smooth. Everything just works. Sleep is definitely worse than on MacOS but it’s better than my Dell.

I can’t name a single thing that is not equally bad or worse on the Dell.

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Re:Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max by cpsns on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @02:01PM (#34417036)
Fair enough, I wasn’t aware they’d made so much progress. I was under the impression it was still a proof of concept and people were glossing over a lot of issues.

I guess that’s the benefit of only having to target a very small amount of hardware, it saves time for improving other things.

I remember preferring Linux on PPC to Linux on intel laptops years ago. Apple PPC laptops tended to “just work” with Linux in my experience.

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