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Re:ARM64 Linux Workstation by linmob on Saturday March 04, 2023 @04:52AM (#35019644)
I used my M1 MacBook Air last weekend with Asahi and GNOME on train ride for roughly 4 hours (browsing the web, fiddling with a server over ssh, writing a blog post) and when shutting it down, it was still at 78%.

This used to be different when I first installed Asahi, but the GPU driver and other improvements have made battery life something I don't really worry about anymore.

Re:ARM64 Linux Workstation by paines on Saturday March 04, 2023 @07:32AM (#35020352)
thank you for that report. This convinced me to install it now.
Re:ARM64 Linux Workstation by biomcgary on Saturday March 04, 2023 @02:23PM (#35023657)
The only thing holding me back from running Asahi is lack of HDMI output (at least on M1 Airs). Has anyone heard about progress (or its likelihood) recently?
Re:ARM64 Linux Workstation by paines on Saturday March 04, 2023 @04:18PM (#35024589)
I tried it just now on M1 14'': nothing...
Re:ARM64 Linux Workstation by paines on Saturday March 04, 2023 @04:35PM (#35024719)
Actually it works quite nicely on a M1 14''. Even battery life is quite good. Compared to my Dell XPS 15 7590 it has twice the battery life, easily if not even more.

One thing which bothers me a lot as it makes the laptop hardly useable for me at night: display brightness cannot be adjusted, it is either off or 100%. Some user claim this can be accomplished by installing the asahi-edge kernel, which does not even boot for me.

And this also bothers me lot: why are things checked in/distributed which do not work at all in Asahi Arch?!?! If you install e.g. a dev kernel which does not boot because the NVME driver is broken and you do not have a fallback kernel you are doomed. You cannot mount the partition in macOS to fix this manually.

Re:ARM64 Linux Workstation by paines on Sunday March 05, 2023 @03:06AM (#35027817)
Also the whole things seems somewhat un-deterministic. This morning I booted and the the Login screen nothing works. No keyboard input, touchpad won't move the cursor. Powerbutton works and will power off the machine. Then, u-boot starts and it stopped with some inputs, like it seems those keys I entered at the login scree, which shouldn't be at all NEVER....a few reboots and then it works normal. Very strange...
Re:ARM64 Linux Workstation by paines on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @05:49AM (#35053867)
Okay, one step further, and one step back: installing the asahi-edge kernel requires the mesa-asahi-egde package otherwise you won't see a thing. This isn't been done automatically. Now brightness works which is fine, but working e.g. with raylib which will create a GLX context fails now with mesa-edge...