macOS 27 Beta Breaks The Ability To Boot Asahi Linux
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  • OctopusNemeses@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    13 days ago

    It was obvious from beginning that the excitement over ARM Macs was short sighted. Major hack jobs will continually require hacking around things. It’s inevitably going to break. There will be unforseeably long periods of downtime. There always be periods of being to not upgrade yet. There will be unforeseen issues that cause this or that feature to be broken. It will always be buggy. It will always be X% working but we just need a few more breakthroughs (which never come). It’s always Soon™.

    Inevitably one of the main contributors will move on and the project dies. At best the X% working sees a major reduction. The next significant breakage results in much longer or indefinite period of time to find a new hack.

    I was laughing at the talk about how Apple is being cooperative or whatever. Let’s see Apple post the hardware reference manuals. Cooperative is being open.

    • encelado748@feddit.org
      3·
      12 days ago

      You are totally right but no one makes arm hardware as good as Apple. Linux alternatives are raspberry pi level (not something you can use for serious computing) or windows locked down system on chip with no driver and worse performance. Linux works on intel and amd for now and none of them produce something as good as Apple silicon.

      EDIT: I do not understand the downvote. This is factual truth. You may not like it but benchmark are clear. There is no competitor for an M5 max in term of efficiency, performance, memory bandwidth as CPU+GPU package for laptop. I know it is not supported yet by Asahi, but the quality on Apple silicon was unmatched for the M4 all the way down to the M1.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    01·
    12 days ago

    Oh look, Microsofts strategy to use whatever method to keep you (except of course making good and reliable software) and reminding you that your computer is theirs, not yours.

  • Alavi@programming.dev
    01·
    13 days ago

    I remember I told one of the asahi devs (lina?) How shitty apple is and how they try to make it as hard as possible for them to make a linux that runs on apple computers. they got triggered, told me this is not the case and apple is very cooperative, then blocked me on mastodon.

    guess they like the arrangement.

    • Wolf314159@startrek.website
      1·
      13 days ago

      This sounds like you were harassing a volunteer dev that had an actual direct interaction with a corporation based on hearsay and they rightfully blocked a troll that wasn’t contributing anything meaningful or constructive to the project.

    • auzy1@lemmy.world
      1·
      13 days ago

      I used to work for an apple reseller.

      Apple devs were fairly normal people and were totally honest with us during developer training. I would happily have a beer with them

      Some Apple sales managers were absolute cocks though. One of them treated me like an idiot one week in front of customers when I defended windows on Mac, and the next week, he was talking like he was a genius and repeated every argument I made the week before.

      Apple talks lots of s*** about Linux. Absolutely don’t buy an Apple if you want a Linux system. The Asahi devs deserve a lot of respect though

    • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      12 days ago

      Only people who like apple (I was going to say fanboys here but I restrained myself) would contribute to posting Linux to Mac, so it logically follows that they wouldn’t like their preferred platform to be criticised.