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I recently tried to get BSD/Linux to work on my omnibook X 14 and... it's been a journey! Eventually I got it to work well with [1] and extracted firmware off

by keyle 3mo ago

I recently tried to get BSD/Linux to work on my omnibook X 14 and... it's been a journey! Eventually I got it to work well with [1] and extracted firmware off github because I had wiped Windows and all partitions into oblivion. I was looking for the bliss of fan-less linux with ARM. The joy! [2] [1] https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-concept-snapdragon-x-elite/48800 https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-concept-snapdragon-x-e... [2] the fans are ON permanently

mrheosuper 3mo ago
If you want fanless arm linux machine, why not macbook m2 air + asahi linux ?
- keyle 3mo ago
  Because at the time of my purchase I mistakenly believed that fan-less was a given for an ARM laptop; and that ARM laptops were a lot more supported than Apple products; some big names were using ARM linux and raving about it. It's still is a great laptop and I recommend it for the hardware overall, but not fan-less indeed.
- pseudosavant 3mo ago
  Asahi still doesn't support a lot of basic things like: external displays, Thunderbolt, hardware accelerated video decoding, 120hz refresh rate, etc.
  - cromka 3mo ago
    120Hz is supported, iirc.
  - atlimar 3mo ago
    It supports external displays, just not on any port
    - pseudosavant 3mo ago
      I was going by Asahi's own support page: https://asahilinux.org/docs/platform/feature-support/m1/ https://asahilinux.org/docs/platform/feature-support/m1/ It seems that external displays are only supported on HDMI (e.g. Mac Mini) but DP Alt mode is still listed as WIP so I'd assume MacBook's with only USB-C (all of them?) can't support an external display.
  - officeplant 3mo ago
    It supported my 175hz monitor on a M1 Mini.
- sharts 3mo ago
  Asahi is like a decade away from being 100% tho
- jjtheblunt 3mo ago
  apple silicon is virtualization capable and the UTM app (on the app store, but open source so you can build it too) wraps Apple's hypervisor framework, allows me to run on my macbook air (m2 earlier, recently updated to m5 just to get more memory) macos as well as arm versions of both fedora and arch, with plasma and gnome (and i've used hyprland etc to toy around). it's important to set UTM to use Apple Silicon _virtualization_, because otherwise it uses QEMU and is thereby emulating. With Apple Silicon virtualization, having macos and arch and fedora all going at once is amazing. pertinent references : https://github.com/utmapp/UTM https://github.com/utmapp/UTM or search for UTM on the Apple app store, where it's prebuilt (and that's what i use successfully). https://developer.apple.com/documentation/hypervisor https://developer.apple.com/documentation/hypervisor

by keyle 3mo ago

mrheosuper 3mo ago

If you want fanless arm linux machine, why not macbook m2 air + asahi linux ?

keyle 3mo ago
Because at the time of my purchase I mistakenly believed that fan-less was a given for an ARM laptop; and that ARM laptops were a lot more supported than Apple products; some big names were using ARM linux and raving about it. It's still is a great laptop and I recommend it for the hardware overall, but not fan-less indeed.
pseudosavant 3mo ago
Asahi still doesn't support a lot of basic things like: external displays, Thunderbolt, hardware accelerated video decoding, 120hz refresh rate, etc.
- cromka 3mo ago
  120Hz is supported, iirc.
- atlimar 3mo ago
  It supports external displays, just not on any port
  - pseudosavant 3mo ago
    I was going by Asahi's own support page: https://asahilinux.org/docs/platform/feature-support/m1/ https://asahilinux.org/docs/platform/feature-support/m1/ It seems that external displays are only supported on HDMI (e.g. Mac Mini) but DP Alt mode is still listed as WIP so I'd assume MacBook's with only USB-C (all of them?) can't support an external display.
- officeplant 3mo ago
  It supported my 175hz monitor on a M1 Mini.
sharts 3mo ago
Asahi is like a decade away from being 100% tho
jjtheblunt 3mo ago
apple silicon is virtualization capable and the UTM app (on the app store, but open source so you can build it too) wraps Apple's hypervisor framework, allows me to run on my macbook air (m2 earlier, recently updated to m5 just to get more memory) macos as well as arm versions of both fedora and arch, with plasma and gnome (and i've used hyprland etc to toy around). it's important to set UTM to use Apple Silicon _virtualization_, because otherwise it uses QEMU and is thereby emulating. With Apple Silicon virtualization, having macos and arch and fedora all going at once is amazing. pertinent references : https://github.com/utmapp/UTM https://github.com/utmapp/UTM or search for UTM on the Apple app store, where it's prebuilt (and that's what i use successfully). https://developer.apple.com/documentation/hypervisor https://developer.apple.com/documentation/hypervisor