How is the support for linux on M-based Macs these days?
Is it viable ?
this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2025
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Asahi has made some good strides. Might be worth checking out.
Maybe on M1,but after some heavy dispute, Asahi Lina, main dev of the graphics driver, stopped working on it and does not feel safe coming back. Also, it was in rust
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I just wish games worked fine on Linux.
Good news, an overwhelming majority does work fine, and a significant number of those actually run better than on windows. I just switched to Linux on my desktop pc (because of win 10 EOL and because fuck microsoft) and I'm amazed how smooth the experience has been.
I read people online saying this often. But I’ve neve been able to play things without hiccups on Linux before.
With very very few exceptions.
I wonder why our experiences are this different. What distribution of linux do you run, on which hardware and how recent is your experience? For what it's worth, I have an AMD cpu and gpu with cachyos (which is a flavor of arch with some gaming optimizations pre-applied at install). I'd urge you to give it another try, Proton/Wine has really advanced a lot in the past few years.
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They do
I’ve read people saying this here on lemmy often.
But it really hasn’t been my experience at all with very few exceptions.
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