Hey! hope i’m in the right place. I am a long term Mac user who installed Linux a few days ago (Asahi Remix 43) and really blown away with how good it is! very polished experience so far. My first experience ever with Linux (and the Linux community!). Really hoping to be able to make the full transition as really fed up with Apples constant bloat (the latest “liquid glass” update made my lovely M1 macbook pro suddenly feel clunky). I’ve dedicated 75% of my harddrive partition to Linux Asahi now so hopefully that shows my intent & hope…
A couple of initial questions…
Is this forum the best place to discuss all things related to the Asahi project? I’d like to contribute to help improve and support it but as a newbie I do not want to come across as annoying either. If i report my findings, issues and wishes as I go, is that going to be helpful or come across as annoying? Is this a friendly helpful community in general?
And finally, I read on social media the lead programer(s)? have left the project… is that true and does that mean this project is in jeopardy or is it in a healthy place with a bright future?
I’d just like to say WELCOME TO LINUX!!! This is a great time too, as for a very long time while Linux was great you just couldn’t get most of your favorite programs to run on it. But now a lot of programs are being developed to run on Linux as well as Microsoft and Apple computers, and the emulation software is so much better as well. The community here is great too, if you have a problem or a question it seems a lot of people go out of their way to help you! Sadly I can’t speak much to your questions (don’t have a Mac) but just wanted to say hello and welcome you!
Yeah, it doesn’t get a lot of activity, but I think its a better format for issues and providing help. Other than the forum, people usually hangout on the matrix room and irc. There is also a subreddit if you want.
In general, I’ve encountered lovely people here, but there are some prickly folks as is the case with all online communities.
The lead programmer was very talented and dedicated a lot of effort to this project, but also there are other people that are also talented still working on the project. Maybe progress is a bit slower, but the project is definitely not in jeopardy. The blog regularly posts progress updates on the team’s work:
Thank you guys for the warm welcome and helpful links! I’ll be sure to read around and get myself up to speed on the whole project, I really want to help it too - i think Linux on Mac hardware is such a great thing and will bring joy to so many people. Apple keeps slowing their computers - perfectly good hardware - down on purpose (or just via recklessness) and that is frustrating.
I’ve already been in touch with a number of developers who are now working on compilers for Arm64 versions of their software (mainly Audio related for now). So i hope that brings fruitful things.
I have some questions about a few things but I’ll save those for their own separate threads.
