Asahi doesn't wipe macos by default (you can do it but it is an extra step) ; the Asahi install splits your system in two, and you can choose how much space to allocate to each.
As an everyday distro, it's pretty much stock fedora with possibly a few missing niche software - think Bitwig if you're into that, you will have Ardour / Pipewire etc but not (yet) Bitwig, which is proprietary and would need them to compile for aarm64. But the amount of stuff available is astounding, and getting better by the day.
Then it depends on your use case. For "general computing" it absolutely works, for more specialised stuff you should check beforehand. I use it as a DAW mostly, with the occasional Kdenlive bout of editing now and then. Oh, and Steam ! We have gaming now it works great. The install process is so smooth, trying it out is a 30 minute affair, tops.
I'd ask the question of why a mac tho : I can't do without because of one macos soft I need IRL (QLab), and the very existence of Asahi allowed me to overcome my repulsion for apple products and buy the thing, heavily discounted. I'm 90% on the Asahi side, only rebooting on macos for live performances.
They are competitively priced for what they are, but I don't trust them to be particularly solid nowadays. I hate the keyboard and the coldness/finish of the case, and find mine weighty. Also real-life use make them feel like a snappy i7, not some crazy fast supercomputer.
So if you don't need a mac, it is not a straightforward proposition unless the price is right in regard to other available stuff. I complement mine with a Thinkpad BTW. I buy them secondhand super cheap, they last 3 or 4 years then I buy another.
Best value ATM is a good specced Air model I believe (Weight, silence, battery life / but quite no outputs, especially no external screen through USB). People in the know says to avoid 8gb ram models, go for 16.
Before I bought that mbp m2pro with 16g of ram (discounted because of M3 being all the rage at the time), I did my homework and compared: nothing framework / thinkpad comes close in price with that processing power, battery life and screen
I don't especially like them, I certainly despise the company, it's branding and ethos, but these are competitively priced actually
D'expérience, avec un solide passé de poivrot et une compagne qui fait maison du kombucha et du keffir : non, nope, que dalle. Ça goûte pas l'alcool, ça donne pas spécialement envie d'alcool, ça sent pas l'alcool.
Mes envies de picole viennent d'un tas (un gros tas) d'autres paramètres, pas de l'arrière-goût de la décoction de sorcière maison de madame.
"Kernel maintainer steps down" - and here I thought the dude fiercely opposed to Rust, that dinosaur vowing to fight with all his might against... a project he wouldn't have a single line of code to maintain, ever, was the one to resign.
Instead we lost "Marcan", Hector Martin, the lead of the Asahi Linux project, following an intervention in the drama-thread by none other than Torvalds himself, who rather than arbitrating or defusing the situation, added to it by scolding Martin with "you are the problem".
Marcan also deleted his Mastodon account ; I am not quite sure what impact this will do on the Asahi Linux project, but fuck me sideways this all reads like unsupervised five years olds bickering in the schoolyard.
Y'a pas des sites qui reproduisent reddit pour nous permettre de ne pas cliquer chez ces méchants-pas-gentils ? (Mais quand même de nous rincer l'œil de bon drama juteux ?)
Ça c'est quand on compte que 30 minutes de removed c'est encore être à l'heure, et ne compte pas les trains supprimés qui disparaissent mystérieusement du réseau et n'arrivent jamais.
Nobody cares about you and your cheap AI-generated tentacle porn. The point here is at entreprise-level. Businesses will be legally locked down with expensive US vendors, it's all that matters.
Infuriating thing above all that cretin protectionism is that pro use of AI stuff will consume a planet-destroying 1030 times as much energy than needed.
Le vendredi c'est le jour du couscous. Genre, pas une blague, c'est sacré quoi. En tournée à Casablanca, toute la semaine on a bien mangé (quoiqu'un peu cher) dans un petit resto en face donc on était confiants. Et enthousiastes.
Pire couscous de nos vies ! Y'avait du jus de tomate dans la sauce !! Dans le couscous marocain !!!
Et il était nul dans tous ses autres aspects. Légumes filandreux, viande sèche, "tfaya" insipide.
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