Asahi Linux on M3

Krish1577

Reverse-engineering Apple's custom silicon is basically the modern equivalent of repairing a spaceship while it's actively launching. Incredible work by the Asahi team!

benoau

Some big caveats but still amazing progress!

tunder

Still no thunderbolt support.

whatever1

Why Apple does not at least provide the specs to the community? So much wasted effort when they can just share a pdf.

sansah

Lack of sleep and HDMI support is real roadblock for adoption. Hope they gets past soon.

TomJansen

I am wondering how much the spec changes per M-chip iteration? I think that after some iterations, the spec stays the same, no?

JLO64

Here's the blog post from the Asahi devs announcing this: https://asahilinux.org/2026/09/m2-episode-1/

TechSquidTV

I thought development officially ended?

jdeaton

This is really incredible work but so frustrating that its necessary

xrd

I'm not sure I understand the target user for Asahi. Is this someone that only wants to run Linux and wants to use their GPU on Linux? Seems like this is not the case, yet. Or, is this for someone that wants to dual boot and use Linux sometimes, and then reboot into MacOS when they want to use the GPU?

colesantiago

This is great news. Hoping for M4 to the latest chip. We need Ashai to support more chips.

_zoltan_

Does USB work already or is that a 2027 item?

pcunite

Let me know when we get M4 support.

simonebrunozzi

What would be the best way to dual boot MacOS and Asahi on a Macbook M2 ?

tarruda

Amazing project. My only blocker for installing Asahi on my Mac Studio (M1 ultra) is that llama.cpp performance is very bad when compared to using the Metal backend on the same hardware.

amelius

My bet: Apple is going to close it down. It is too much of a legal risk. What if some Linux enthusiast finds patent infringements in Apple's undocumented APIs?

smm11

I don't understand this. Buy something else to run Linux, as in anything other than Apple M series laptops. And if you want to do AI stuff, suffer with OSX using too much RAM, or again, buy something appropriate.

publlus_enigma

The reason this amazing project exists is the same reason my current Mac will be my last Mac. I wish the team every success.

mrheosuper

Thanks for the effort, guys. This makes me think, shouldn't the driver layer be generic now. All the driver does is writing correct data at correct address when needed, there is no need for OS support except triggering driver when to do that. A true HAL, any OS can run on that HAL.

shmoe

It is odd that Apple doesn't chip in here... they've originated so much decent stuff in the OSS space. Seems like a huge missed opportunity.