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SuperTuxKart) run smoothly, as does high definition video using VLC…ĬPU usage rarely rises above 30%, even with a dozen or more graphical apps open and many background services and containers running. I’ve never seen KDE, GNOME, LibreOffice, Gimp, Inkscape, and Firefox run so fast before.
Other: Hugo, LibreOffice, Gimp, Inkscape, Bluefish, Remmina (corporate RDP)Įven with CPU-generated graphics (because GPU acceleration isn’t available yet), desktop environments and apps are lightning fast. Collaboration: MS Teams (via Firefox), GitHub, slack-term. Versioning & devops: Git, Git Cola, Docker, K3s, Ansible. Development: Java, JavaScript, Python, PostgreSQL. Code editor: vim plus the developer extras. Wired Ethernet (although Wi-Fi works perfectly in Asahi).
Lenovo ThinkPad II keyboard (2.4GHz connection). Moreover, it runs my software much faster than macOS on the same hardware. And while it’s missing a few features that will be added shortly (GPU acceleration, Bluetooth, sound), it’s otherwise very polished and 100% production-ready. It’s based on Arch Linux and is unbelievably fast. Eckert says he’s getting “real work done” and that Asahi Linux on an Apple M1 Mac mini is “unbelievably fast.” Apple’s M1 Mac mini packs a staggering amount of performance into its ultracompact design.Īsahi is the first Linux distribution that you can install natively on Apple M1-based (arm64) systems. Despite it being an alpha release, Jason Eckert immediately installed it, and he’s been using it as a developer workstation ever since. The first (alpha) release of Asahi Linux was released in March.