{"id":453074,"date":"2022-07-19T12:03:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T10:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=453074"},"modified":"2022-07-19T12:04:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T10:04:23","slug":"asahi-linux-runs-on-apple-m2-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/453074-asahi-linux-runs-on-apple-m2-machines.html","title":{"rendered":"Asahi Linux runs on Apple M2 machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The team behind Asahi Linux have <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/asahilinux.org\/2022\/07\/july-2022-release\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a><\/strong> that the distribution runs on the M1 Ultra and Mac Studio without needing a virtual machine.<\/p>\n<p>While the Asahi team have got Bluetooth to work, they said Wi-Fi\/Bluetooth coexistence isn\u2019t properly configured yet.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, users can expect poor Bluetooth performance if they are connected to a 2.4 GHz wireless network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recommend turning off Wi-Fi or using a 5GHz network if you want to use Bluetooth at this time; we will be adding coexistence support in the coming weeks,\u201d the team said.<\/p>\n<p>The developers have also added experimental support for M2 machines in the Asahi Linux installer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter just a 12-hour bring-up marathon, Linux was booting on the M2 with USB, NVMe, battery stats\/control, CPUfreq, Wi-Fi, and more!\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a few more days of work, we were able to get the keyboard\/trackpad working, bringing it to feature parity with existing systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As M2 support is still very early in its development, the team noted that users should select expert mode in the Asahi installer to enable installation on an M2 machine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is even more experimental than M1 support, so expect bugs,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>The features that are not yet working in Asahi Linux are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DisplayPort<\/li>\n<li>Thunderbolt<\/li>\n<li>HDMI on the MacBooks<\/li>\n<li>GPU acceleration<\/li>\n<li>Video codec acceleration<\/li>\n<li>Neural Engine<\/li>\n<li>CPU deep idle<\/li>\n<li>Sleep mode<\/li>\n<li>Camera<\/li>\n<li>Touch Bar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/452168-best-linux-distributions-to-revive-an-ancient-laptop.html\">Best Linux distributions to revive an ancient laptop<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Asahi Linux developer team have got the Linux distribution running on Apple\u2019s latest M2 chips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341094,"featured_media":449858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[605,79938,73448,79940,2450],"class_list":["post-453074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-apple","tag-asahi-linux","tag-m1-processor","tag-m2-processor","tag-macbook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453112,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453074\/revisions\/453112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}