Gentoo on Macbook Air/Pro M1 (ARM64)

[Zucca]

I've been looking for used M1 Air semi-actively. So far the prices seem to be around 600€ here.
I think I'll wait a little more... If I ever get one I'll be running Linux on it bare metal.
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[axl]

finally spent some time to do it bare metal.

short version of whats happening is: you basically can have more than one version of mac os on your mac. so you not technically install linux, you just install another mac. quite difficult to get early screen, so if you mess up grub and booting or forget to put a root password and start network/ssh before reboot ... might be hard to return and fix it later. But there are creative ways. )

I tried it on a mac mini with M1 and 16GB of RAM. its much faster running on bare metal than parallels. But some things wont work out of the box, or wont work at all. Fortunately the list is getting shorter. You basically can't do USB4/thunderbolt. sound still finicky.

My suggestion, and what I chose to do is to slim mac os as much as possible, then made a minimal fedora install, and from fedora, using guides, I managed to start a gentoo install. From the system point of view, I have 3 mac OS installed. 1 is the original mac os, the other 2 are linux installs masquerading as macos. Also, should prolly keep in mind that ext/2/3/4 you can read/write from mac os, but other more exotic FS wont be able to open. its good to have a second version of linux, just in case you lock yourself out of the system somehow, otherwise you basically are forced to delete and reinstall. unless its ext4 can't otherwise get back to that data, unless you have a second linux.

Its not that complicated. Most of the work is mostly done. Wont be easy either. But its doable now.

yes, the gpu driver is reasonable now. has some GL functionality. better than macs I think. and vulkan. but only on wayland. I mostly use it as compile machine, and for that its amazing. when it idles it just plays stuff on kodi. and does that very well.

[NeddySeagoon]

It looks like Gentoo on Mac is officially supported now.

Project:Asahi
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NeddySeagoon

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[flysideways]

[Freed]

Yes, asahi Linux can support Gentoo, although it is unofficial. https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/SW%3AAlternative-Distros

Official support OS is Fedora Asahi Remix, https://asahilinux.org/fedora/

Maybe in the future, Gentoo Asahi Remix will come