It doesn't mean that people don't review the code, though. You still can't ask Linus to merge a million-line patch, even if it works.

And more importantly, documenting Mac hardware takes time. Components like the speaker on a Macbook can be permanently damaged if you don't write the drivers in a specific way. Other features like the Secure Enclave, power management, and TouchID might be unsupportable depending on how Apple designed it.

Asahi's stance isn't particularly crazy, and it probably aligns with how Linus feels about upstreaming code that nobody understands.

TouchID is already supported on Omarchy, I use it on my daily driver MacBook works great. The speaker too.

It is quite remarkable how far along support has come: https://aurorasilicon.org/devices/

For M4 and M5, the speakers are not listed as working. M1, M2 and M3 are all using Asahi drivers.

> It is quite remarkable how far along support has come

Is it? All I'm seeing from that page is that they forked Asahi's M1-M4 work, and then failed to bring up M5 and M6. What's remarkable here?

https://github.com/omacom/omarchy/blob/quattro/manual/44-mac... but here they say

> Please note that installing on an M-series Mac is not directly supported at this time.

Support would be great, but there seems no way to download it atm: https://aurorasilicon.org/docs/download/

> I use it on my daily driver MacBook works great.

And the way they have written that driver is absolute crap, not submimissible at all. They will need to write it from scratch, properly, using a TEE driver, a sensor driver, a userspace plumbing and an fprintd patch. What they did, instead, is they run pretty much everything in-kernel.

So, can't wait for ridiculous exploits that make your fingerprint effectively a backdoor to your OS.

I think the other factor is all these additional projects are starting from the work Asahi has done, whether they're actually able to deliver substantial value themselves is yet to be seen, especially safely and securely.

Personally I don't think it's very likely the tables would turn and Asahi became dependent upon their contributions. I foresee a much bleaker future for Omarchy, crashing and burning from some reckless and unnecessarily abrasive whim of DHH. I'm not optimistic about Gravity Linux either, it's a single-dev project and that's prone to failure for many reasons.