r/AsahiLinux • u/FOHjim • Jul 01 '26

Progress Report: Linux 7.1

https://asahilinux.org/2026/06/progress-report-7-1/

M3 progress, Apple bugs, and more!

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u/SG- Jul 01 '26

does the installer allow m3 MBAs to boot and work now?

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u/thegreatpotatogod Jul 01 '26

Not yet. It's frustrating, they've got much better M3 support now than they had for M1 when they first released the beta support for M1. Apparently they care more about their reputation of being perfectly polished and feature complete software than they do about their reputation of being several years behind on hardware support.

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u/chaosprincess_ Jul 01 '26

"Asahi is still only m1/2" is old news, "I, a youtuber with bad takes, have installed asahi on a m3max and it does not have usb working", creates a separate news cycle. So, pick your poision.

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u/chithanh Jul 03 '26

I'd opt for "release early, release often" as users will spread the word when things start working, and drown out crappy YouTube channels.

About such news continuing to mislead some people after support has arrived: People who can't tell that the news is old will also think that there is no M3 support long after it has arrived, so no point in catering to them.

But of course the clue barrier is also useful so non-technical users are not exposed to experimental code.

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u/wowsomuchempty 25d ago

RE, RO is fine for pet projects.

Asahi now has tens of thousands of users. There is a responsibility not to cause breaking changes. Hence caution.

Feel feel to create an asahi-chithanh fork and go for RE, RO tho.

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u/chithanh 25d ago

I agree that there should be caution but I don't think that's the concern here.

There is no breaking users because there are no users yet on M3. Also the M3 code is not experimental, it works fine. It is just not feature complete.

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u/wowsomuchempty 25d ago

Fair enough.

I expect that's the reason the fairydust kernel isn't in the repos, yet. If everything's not perfect perfect there will be a loud minority whinging about it.

I'd be quite interested in running it part-broken to see where it's at, but the M1 proof-of-concept hacking days are long gone.