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Asahi Linux takes on Apple M3, minus a few creature comforts
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The Asahi Linux gang has announced support for Apple's M3 silicon, with a few ifs and buts for owners that want to try out the code on their hardware.
According to the project, "Asahi Linux now officially supports Macs with an M3 series SoC!"
There are, however, some substantial caveats. Want performant or power-efficient 3D acceleration from the GPU? You'll need to wait a bit. How about the HDMI port? "The lack of DCP support means that the HDMI port on equipped MacBooks is currently disabled."
Sleep does not work either, although the project noted: "This will be addressed once full DCP support is wired up for M3."
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Asahi Linux is a project and community with the goal of porting Linux to Apple Silicon Macs - and now it supports Macs with the M3 series SoC. This was announced in a new blog post on the official website noting that the installer has been upgraded to bring support for the newer chips!
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LWN ☛ Asahi Linux now supports M3-series Macs
The Asahi Linux project has announced that support for Apple's M3-series chips has been added to the Asahi installer.
Linux support for M3 series SoCs and the machines powered by them is now in a state where almost everything supported on the M1 and M2 series machines just works. This includes the webcam, internal microphones, USB (up to the hardware limit of USB 3 10 Gb/s), hardware accelerated video decoding including support for AV1, WiFi, Bluetooth, and much more! The only major exceptions remain full DCP support and the GPU, which we will have more news on in the coming months. Do not expect performant or power-efficient 3D acceleration right now.
See the blog post for other current limitations of M3 support.
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Asahi Linux rolls out support for M3 Apple Silicon
The Asahi Linux project now officially supports Macs with an M3, M3 Pro, or M3 Max chip, bringing the operating system to more Apple Silicon desktops.
In late August, a blog post for the Asahi Linux project, which intends to bring Linux to Apple Silicon and run natively on Apple's ARM chips, said M3 support was on the way. While it said that it was a matter of weeks, it seems to have arrived in a much quicker timeframe.
A blog post on September 6 declares support for Macs using an M3-series SoC. This now extends support beyond the previous M1 and M2 generations of Apple Silicon.
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Asahi Linux adds official support for Apple M3 Macs, with a few limits
The Asahi Linux distribution now officially supports Apple M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max-powered Macs, with some minor caveats.
The project announced that support for the M3-powered machines has been merged into the Asahi installer over the weekend, meaning users can now install the Linux distribution on most Macs powered by Apple's 3rd-generation Apple Silicon chips. The M3 Ultra Mac Studio, however, remains unsupported.
For those unfamiliar with Asahi, it is a community-led project working to bring Linux to Apple's custom silicon Macs. Apple does not provide Linux developers with engineering documentation for its hardware, so the project has to spend time and effort reverse-engineering Apple's chips and peripherals and writing the drivers needed to make them work under Linux.
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Linux finally runs on Mac M3 (except the graphics card)
The Asahi Linux project has just merged Mac M3 support into its installer. In plain terms, that means if you've got a MacBook Air, a MacBook Pro or an iMac with an M3, M3 Pro or M3 Max chip, you can now install Linux on it.
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Asahi Linux brings its OS to Macs with Apple M3
Asahi Linux now supports Macs with Apple’s M3 processors. Much of the hardware already works under Linux, but features such as GPU acceleration, sleep mode, and HDMI do not yet function.
Support applies to the M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max. The M3 Ultra in the Mac Studio is not yet supported. Asahi Linux has already added the necessary changes to its installer, according to The Register.
Many components that the project previously got working on M1 and M2 systems also function with the M3. This includes Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB, the webcam, and internal microphones. Hardware-accelerated video decoding also works, including AV1.