Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs, With Caveats
Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs, With Caveats
Asahi Linux now officially supports Apple M3 Macs, with caveats, and the caveats are the part that decides whether this is useful to you.
Official support in this project has always meant a specific thing: the installer will run on the machine and the bring-up is far enough along that the team is willing to carry it. It has never meant every piece of the hardware answers. The pattern on earlier chips was that the CPU, storage and display arrive first and the awkward peripherals, the display controller paths and the power management arrive over the following year or two, driven by whoever was willing to reverse-engineer them.
This is worth more than a nice weekend project for anyone whose CI runs on Linux and whose laptop is an M3. Running the same kernel on the machine in front of you as on the box you deploy to closes a whole category of difference you otherwise paper over with a virtual machine. Read the caveats list before you wipe anything, and know which of the parts you rely on are on it.