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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Fedora Asahi Remix Officially Released for Apple Silicon Macs (9to5linux.com)

submitted 11 months ago by d3Xt3r to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Announced in early August and initially planned for the end of the month, the Fedora Asahi Remix distribution is finally here for those who want to install the Fedora Linux operating system on their Apple Silicon Macs.

The distro is based on the latest Fedora Linux 39 release and ships with the KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS desktop environment by default, using Wayland.

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[–] GnomeComedy@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I promise I'm not a troll, but I just don't understand the appeal. That's a crazy expensive piece of hardware to run a currently only mostly working distro.

Even when the hardware is 100% working, it's still ARM, so anything that's not open source won't run because it'll be x86_64.

Definitely a chicken and egg problem on availability of ARM software.

I'm asking in good faith - am I missing something?

[–] jcarax@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

I have an MBA, from a failed experiment with the Apple ecosystem. I love that it's passively cooled, and will probably use it as a couch laptop with Asahi until the ARM market heats up in 2025 to 2026.