Fedora Asahi on an M1 Mac. It’s flawless apart from the still missing driver support for displays over usb-C (yes there is an experimental branch, no I’m not compiling my own kernel on the machine I rely upon for uni)
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I've been hesitant to do this to my own MacBook. How's the battery life? Any caveats apart from the usb-c display driver?
Battery life is ok, though sleep is not amazing (just got somewhat improved on the pro chips tho). You don’t have the ambient light sensor for auto brightness adjustment nor fingerprint. USB stack is a mild mess, but much better than before. You are forced to keep a MacOS partition (mostly for firmware updates iirc). Otherwise. Flawless. Very stable, only broke it through my skill issue (deleted /bin) or by my skill issue (updated to the next version of fedora before it was officially announced, and was experimental, and there was a kernel that broke the touchbar and sound). Camera works, speakers work, you get Vulkan acceleration on the graphics card, mic works, touchbar works, what else could you ask for?
Years ago i managed to run Gentoo on an Asus Transformer tablet. Pretty shitty experience due to the low spec hardware (1gb ram, shitty slow uSD storage)
Still an awesome experience. Ithink compiling Firefox took one week, and it didn't run smooth at all. I remember also setting up swap on a USB thumb drive.
Go figure.
I still have the image and stuff somewhere. Not the tabled unfortunately
I looked into it but everything I've looked up shows that it doesn't really work very well. I remember when Snapdragon laptops first debuted they were showing off Fedora but it doesn't seem much progress has been made since then.
Here's hoping SteamOS for ARM (Steam Frame) makes some headway in this department.
Yes. Gentoo on an arm Chromebook. Plasma. Runs fairly well. Battery lasts forever.
I run Armbian on a Pinebook Pro. Its not fast but it runs well.
I ran Debian on my Pinebook Pro until it tied about 6 month ago. Was painfully slow but it did kind of work.
I've been running Ubuntu on my pinebook pro. It's quite usable. I also put the ssd adapter in it. That helps a lot with firefox loading super slow but it also munches the battery.
That’s a really good question as I was also curious about it since we only hear about Asahi on the M Macs.
I don’t know what you can run on the Snapdragons Linux wise..
Haven't done it personally, but I think Ubuntu would be one of the better choices. You get the Ubuntu ARM debs and ARM snaps out of the box.
You can then install Flathub and Fedora Flatpaks.
Fedora Flatapks is small and not without controversy, but one of its benefits is that all of its packages are built for ARM. Flathub and Snap aren't consistent in doing that. Any many times you'll find that Snap has an ARM build and Flathub doesn't, and vice versa.