Fedora Asahi Remix 40 Now Available For Apple Silicon Devices

Michael Larabel reports via Phoronix: Building off the recent release of Fedora 40, Fedora Asahi Remix 40 is now available for this downstream of Fedora Linux that's optimized to run on Apple Silicon ARM systems. Fedora Asahi Remix continues to be one of the best ways of enjoying a Linux experience atop recent Apple Macs making use of their in-house M1/M2/M3 SoCs. With the Fedora Asahi Remix 40 release there is now conformant OpenGL 4.6 support thanks to the upgraded Mesa. There is also improved device compatibility with its newer kernel.

Fedora Asahi Remix continues to cater to using the KDE Plasma desktop by default. With the upgrade to Fedora Asahi Remix 40 this also means now transitioning to the KDE Plasma 6.0 desktop environment for their flagship desktop experience. A GNOME variant using GNOME 46 is also available. You can learn more about the release via FedoraMagazine.org. Installation options are available at FedoraProject.org.

"enjoying a Linux experience"

[Valgrus Thunderaxe]

Asahi on Apple silicon is like enjoying a colonoscopy.

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[MobileTatsu-NJG]

Gee, I remember when Linux being available on everything wasn't something to groan about.

Btw those nerdy/geeky peeps you looked up to in your formative years, they didn't pick obscure computers/doodads to look fashionable, they made their choices because it suited their needs. My dad's friend, for example, picked Atari computers over Commodore/Amiga because of their midi support. That's it, it had nothing to do with that ancient playground battle.

Asahi Linux the best Linux ARM experience

[caseih]

At the moment, Asahi Linux on Apple hardware seems to make the best Linux ARM computer out there. It's kind of sad because the market is flooded with ARM hardware but the Linux experience on every one leaves a lot to be desired. It's a far cry from Linux in the PC world.

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[serviscope_minor]

Shoutout for the pi! I've been through loads of them and they're awesome, but obviously not the same segment as a Mac.

The over all experience on ARM is generally pretty bad. I did see an explanation about versus intel something about hardware self description means kernels (i.e. Linux but also actually Windows) have to be customized for each machine rather than one kernel to rule them all on x86. This makes it a craphoot of vendor customisation and non upgradability.

Anyway I can't remember the details, hopi

Re: Asahi Linux the best Linux ARM experience

[diffract]

I really really love my M1 Macbook. It has everything I want from a laptop, except the ports situation. I've recently had the desire to move away from big-tech operating system. I switched my home PC fully to Linux. I want to also move away from MacOS but I looked around and can't seem to find a laptop that's a close-enough copy to the Macbook.
Asahi still has a long way to go to be a usable operating system, but when it does it'll be a lovely combo

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[CAIMLAS]

That's partially due to the ARM hardware all being quite lackluster, compared to PC: poor performance CPUs, small bus bandwidth, and storage as a second class with poor performance (no PCI, no SATA, no NVME). Most of what is available is roughly the same in the $20-200 range for a board.

It's better than it used to be, but the features just aren't there to make a performant desktop experience, generally.

M3???

[BerkeleyDude]

Where does it say that M3 is supported?

Never found a good reason to want Linux

[bsdetector101]

How many flavors of Linux are out there and how many actually work w/o any twiddling ??? Just my person opinion and don't see a reason to use it.

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[drinkypoo]

How many flavors of Linux are out there and how many actually work w/o any twiddling ??

Same question for you, but about Windows.

People are always whining about how you have to tweak stuff to make Linux work. I have never ever had a Windows system where I didn't have to tweak registry values, manually edit config files, etc. So it's a valid complaint, but not about Linux, only about computers in general. The only place I didn't do a ton of that was the classic MacOS, and that only because there was less tweaking available and you just lived with it being terribly limited.

here mod this too

[drinkypoo]

If you spend your mod points on me you can't spend them on someone who gets less karma than I do.

I've been working with Linux for many years and Windows even longer ofc, and Windows is a massive PITA all day every day.

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[bsdetector101]

Just for me, never saw a reason to install it. And I don't use Windows either. Again, personal preference. It's not an attack against either. Just my choice..

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[drinkypoo]

You said "How many flavors of Linux are out there and how many actually work w/o any twiddling ???"

This implied that there were operating systems that work without twiddling.

There are no operating systems that work for power users (or even, often, for average users) without twiddling and there never have been.

I don't care whether you see what the world has seen that has made Linux the dominant operating system for people who actually want to get shit done. What I care about is that your very argument is ign

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[caseih]

Yes there are quite a few and generally speaking most of them work without any twiddling, at least on x86 hardware. ARM is a different story, but Asahi is becoming a more comfortable experience on Apple M devices, which is amazing because Apple's hardware is quite hostile to other operating systems and not designed for anything but macOS.

Every once in a while I encounter an embarrassing issue in Linux. But I've also encountered many paper cuts in Windows, and macOS seems to be a worse and worse user experi

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[CAIMLAS]

I've had the same install of linux on numerous systems for many, many years.

Yeah, you can fiddle and fuck with it to your heart's content, but you can also leave it alone and it mostly works for desktop use.

The worst thing I've ever experienced is is bugs getting introduced when upgrading between major releases, or major architectural changes in something introducing new behavior or incompatibility. We're talking about different kernel schedulers or drivers needing to be reinstalled, introduction of things

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[bsdetector101]

Like I said, personal preference, never found a reason to want it ! !