I want to install Arch Linux on my M2 Mac Air but I don’t think there is a way to do it with Asahi. Is there something I’m missing or is ther another way without Asahi?
If not what versions of linux can you install? just Fedora?
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There is no official arm64 version of Arch Linux, so you can’t install the “real” Arch Linux on any ARM64 machine.
The only option today is Arch Linux ARM (ALARM), which is a third-party fork unrelated to the Arch Linux team (despite the name). We used to support it, but it is poorly maintained and often has major packaging issues, and we can no longer recommend it.
I do believe some people are still maintaining the Asahi PKGBUILDs for ALARM and you could try that, but again, we don’t consider the ALARM distro to be suitable for end users on desktop systems at this time, so I would discourage you from going in that direction. You are not going to get the same experience as with upstream Arch Linux on x86, and there is nothing anyone at Asahi or our related projects can do about that. We only work on Apple hardware support, we can’t work on arm64 support in general. You should stick to base distros with good arm64 upstream support.
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