Asahi Linux is interesting, to say the least. To say the most, it seemed to stutter a lot when I was first using it but that stopped. Ended up running KDE Plasma, which is still on version 5.27 as Fedora is still on 39. A lot of software is not available, and a lot of flatpaks tend to have errors that their RPM counterparts do not have. I have kind of given up on flatpaks for this install, to be honest.

The actual install itself was pretty easy, but removing it was another situation involving one script that I though was the complete script, but the answer marked solution on the fedora forums was wrong! I thought I had already bricked the laptop, but a lot of troubleshooting and eventually a complete revival (yes, that’s what it was called) fixed the issue, and I was able to get the installation the way I wanted it.

Still working on setting up, but it seems to be working. I would obviously reccomend it to anybody who already has a macbook, it’s stable and has all of the software I needed (not wanted, sorry Civ 6), including Mullvad VPN. However, if you are looking to get a new laptop, unless it’s the only option () I would recommend getting something x86_64 because the ARM processor is simply not up to par with x86_64 in terms of software availability and comparability (flatpaks). The battery life is much better though, I will give it that. I don’t know how macbooks tend to fair against other laptops with similar specs, but the screen and lid-durability are much better than on my old laptop (it had stress marks from me opening and closing it so much).

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