No, android does not count.

Is there anyone who daily drives Linux on apple silicon or other ARM hardware? If so, then how is your experience, would you recommend it?

For at least 3 years, I’ve been wanting to get an apple silicon mac to daily drive Linux on, lately I’ve been seriously considering getting one of these machines, or even other ARM hardware, like the thinkpad x13s or even the new Qualcomm laptops.

I’m pretty much sold on a used macbook air m1 at this point, but I still wish to hear what other people have to say

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    8 months ago

    I installed Asahi Linux on my M1 Air just to kick the tires. It worked great in my limited testing. I didn’t stay on it (never intended to), so I can only say that my initial testing was positive.

  • LovePoson@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Im using arch linux to respond to you right now from my dualboot Oneplus 6. Yeah linux on phones is cool. Recommended. 4.9 stars

  • Pasta Dental@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    From experience, most apps/packages that are compiled for Linux are compiled for both x86 and arm. I’ve had no real issues getting software on my OnePlus 6 running on postmarket os (full Linux os on a phone basically). This is very likely because ARM is a thing in the server space, so most packages in your distros repositories will be compiled for all architectures (and that’s if it’s not required by the distro’s repos to have the two supported).

    Other software ftom outside the repos where linux was already a second class citizen like discord or Spotify may be troublesome though

  • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I was using the pinebook pro ARM laptop with manjaro linux as a semi-daily driver for a while. It is fine for simple tasks and web browsing, but you cannot expect the hardware to be quick or snappy. I had consistent issues with wifi, and eventually I got fed up with the weak performance and switched back to an x86-64 architecture laptop. In terms of software and support, besides the wifi issues, it was fine

    • phanto@lemmy.ca
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      8 months ago

      Ditto, except mine just died one day. I put it away for bed, woke up, flipped it open, Nada. Brick. I felt it was a bit slower than I’d like, but got pretty good battery life.

      Really tempted to try a Musebook, based on Risc-V, because apparently I’m a sucker for punishment.