Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs - With Caveats
Asahi Linux supports Apple M3 Macs, but with feature caveats.
Intelligence analysis by Qwen 2.5 (3B)
Asahi Linux, a Linux distribution, now officially supports Apple M3 powered Macs, though with some limitations.
Asahi Linux now works on Apple M3 Macs, but some things don't work as well as on older M1 and M2 Macs.
Analysis
{"#Feature-Caveats":"The Asahi Linux developers have acknowledged that the GPU support is not yet performant or power efficient for 3D acceleration. They hope to have more GPU progress in the coming months.","#Sleep-Support":"Asahi Linux on the Apple M3 also does not currently provide sleep support due to the lack of DCP support. Without DCP support, the HDMI port on M3 MacBooks is also not working.","#Upstreaming":"The initial M3 support in the mainline Linux kernel is for basic boot support, with various other patches remaining for upstreaming in Linux 7.4+ before it will reach a state similar to Asahi Linux itself."}
Key points
- Asahi Linux now supports Apple M3 Macs
- GPU support is not yet performant or power efficient for 3D acceleration
- Sleep support is not available due to lack of DCP support
Asahi Linux developers hope to improve GPU support and add sleep support in the future.
The current support for Apple M3 Macs has some limitations, such as poor GPU performance and lack of sleep support.