[jazzyjackson]

Asahi Linux has come a long way. I think the only finicky thing I dealt with was Bluetooth audio so switched to a USB DAC which works fine, and they don’t have hdmi over usbc working yet, but the hardware hdmi port works fine. (edit: just realized they are not up to m3 yet, just m1/2)

Besides that the fedora gnome desktop has won me over, I was able to install everything I wanted from the software app (logseq, gnucash, thunderbird, filezilla), stable as a cow

A couple of QoL wins against macOS (besides coming with a package manager {even windows has winget now!} and, you know, being free): they’ve combined the functionality of Spotlight with Mission Control/alt tab, just tap cmd and switch apps or search for app/file/setting. I cannot reacclimate to having two different shortcuts on Mac now. Drag window to the side for split screen or top for full screen works fine. The other is small: when I mouseover the volume slider in the taskbar I can scroll to control it. Mac does not, have to click and drag. Call it a finishing touch.

I liked it so much I slapped an SSD into a 2014 Intel Mac mini (can you believe we had gigabit and usb3 over 10 years ago?) and put fedora workstation on that too. Truly the year of the Linux desktop (for me anyway).

EDIT: oh yea! Only other annoyance is Signal doesn’t work on either! Electron builds fail for aarch64 (not asahi’s fault) and even on x86-fedora it throws up warnings that it doesn’t know what secure keychain to use, would I like to store database plaintext? Uh, no! I’ll just go back to email ffs