[keyle]

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-e...

[2] the fans are ON permanently

[mrheosuper]

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

[pseudosavant]

Asahi still doesn't support a lot of basic things like: external displays, Thunderbolt, hardware accelerated video decoding, 120hz refresh rate, etc.

[atlimar]

It supports external displays, just not on any port

[pseudosavant]

I was going by Asahi's own support page: 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]

It supported my 175hz monitor on a M1 Mini.

[cromka]

120Hz is supported, iirc.

[jjtheblunt]

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

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

[keyle]

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.

[sharts]

Asahi is like a decade away from being 100% tho