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- cross-posted to:
- apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world
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Taking a leaf out of Microsoft’s book, I see
Yeah, I tried dual booting for a very short time ~20 years ago (oh man…) Every time Windows would obliterate my grub config/mbr and I’d have to dig up instructions to reconfigure grub from live cd. Never again.
Back in those (pre-UEFI) days it was quite easy to add GRUB to the Windows boot manager instead.
You’d wind up with a menu entry that Windows would usually leave alone, unlike its aggressive reinstallation overwriting GRUB.
Once UEFI came along, it became easier to give each OS an entire disk with no connections between them, and use the BIOS as the boot menu.
Or, y’know, just give Windows the flick and only run Linux 😉
It’s a beta…they fix bugs to get asahi booting all the time. This isn’t new.
Sure but what if I already hate Apple and this article validates my feelings?
That’s what I’m saying (!)
I remember I told one of the asahi devs (lina?) How shitty apple is and how they try to make it as hard as possible for them to make a linux that runs on apple computers. they got triggered, told me this is not the case and apple is very cooperative, then blocked me on mastodon.
guess they like the arrangement.
Some people like being in abusive relationships it seems.
This sounds like you were harassing a volunteer dev that had an actual direct interaction with a corporation based on hearsay and they rightfully blocked a troll that wasn’t contributing anything meaningful or constructive to the project.
Social media is for socializing. They posted something in the lines of “we can’t get graphics to work properly” and I sympathized with them about how hard it must be dealing with apples’ dick moves.
I used to work for an apple reseller.
Apple devs were fairly normal people and were totally honest with us during developer training. I would happily have a beer with them
Some Apple sales managers were absolute cocks though. One of them treated me like an idiot one week in front of customers when I defended windows on Mac, and the next week, he was talking like he was a genius and repeated every argument I made the week before.
Apple talks lots of s*** about Linux. Absolutely don’t buy an Apple if you want a Linux system. The Asahi devs deserve a lot of respect though
Only people who like apple (I was going to say fanboys here but I restrained myself) would contribute to posting Linux to Mac, so it logically follows that they wouldn’t like their preferred platform to be criticised.
Read it as “Apple’s boot licker” wouldn’t expect anything else from them.
Lmao same
Nice to see a corporation show some fear towards a community project.
Been very happily living in Asahi for the last few weeks. It’s buggy, but totally usable for a daily driver. So usable that I’m tempted to obliterate the macOS partition entirely.
You should keep it around, per the Asahi docs themselves, and marcan provides some additional context in a reddit comment which I’ve also quote here:
Can, yes. Should, no. It is not supported right now. You won’t be able to install Asahi if you first remove macOS, and removing it after requires messing with partitions using a USB boot image or similar, and will leave you without the ability to recover from certain problems without outright reinstalling macOS first, plus no firmware updates (which might become required in the future to enable certain features - do you really want to find out you can’t play newer games because you need a GPU firmware update and you have to reinstall macOS for that?).
We’ll have more options for this in the future, but right now we do not support it and if you go this way, you’re on your own.
That all leaves multiple copies of recoveryOS of course, which is a stripped-down version of macOS itself. It is not possible to remove recoveryOS and keep your machine functional at all. It is basically part of your BIOS.
You could try using
diskutil apfs resizeContainer <container ID> minimum(I don’t 100% recall if the last argument is actuallyminimumbut using the regular--helpshould give you the correct one) in macOS to shrink the macOS container to smaller than the Asahi installer typically allows, or use expert mode in the Asahi install script to override the macOS size check, possibly with fewer negative consequences than deleting it outright.Sorry if you already know all this but I thought I’d add it here just in case!
congratulations, you played yourself
It was obvious from beginning that the excitement over ARM Macs was short sighted. Major hack jobs will continually require hacking around things. It’s inevitably going to break. There will be unforseeably long periods of downtime. There always be periods of being to not upgrade yet. There will be unforeseen issues that cause this or that feature to be broken. It will always be buggy. It will always be X% working but we just need a few more breakthroughs (which never come). It’s always Soon™.
Inevitably one of the main contributors will move on and the project dies. At best the X% working sees a major reduction. The next significant breakage results in much longer or indefinite period of time to find a new hack.
I was laughing at the talk about how Apple is being cooperative or whatever. Let’s see Apple post the hardware reference manuals. Cooperative is being open.
You are totally right but no one makes arm hardware as good as Apple. Linux alternatives are raspberry pi level (not something you can use for serious computing) or windows locked down system on chip with no driver and worse performance. Linux works on intel and amd for now and none of them produce something as good as Apple silicon.
EDIT: I do not understand the downvote. This is factual truth. You may not like it but benchmark are clear. There is no competitor for an M5 max in term of efficiency, performance, memory bandwidth as CPU+GPU package for laptop. I know it is not supported yet by Asahi, but the quality on Apple silicon was unmatched for the M4 all the way down to the M1.
Fix: Create another partition from macOS 27, install older macOS version, boot into it and change startup volume back to Asahi
This is bad, but also we’re less than a week into a developer preview build here, we might want to hold our horses for a moment
booooooo
Oh look, Microsofts strategy to use whatever method to keep you (except of course making good and reliable software) and reminding you that your computer is theirs, not yours.
