Taking a leaf out of Microsoft’s book, I see
I remember I told one of the asahi devs (lina?) How shitty apple is and how they try to make it as hard as possible for them to make a linux that runs on apple computers. they got triggered, told me this is not the case and apple is very cooperative, then blocked me on mastodon.
guess they like the arrangement.
I used to work for an apple reseller.
Apple devs were fairly normal people and were totally honest with us during developer training. I would happily have a beer with them
Some Apple sales managers were absolute cocks though. One of them treated me like an idiot one week in front of customers when I defended windows on Mac, and the next week, he was talking like he was a genius and repeated every argument I made the week before.
Apple talks lots of s*** about Linux. Absolutely don’t buy an Apple if you want a Linux system. The Asahi devs deserve a lot of respect though
This sounds like you were harassing a volunteer dev that had an actual direct interaction with a corporation based on hearsay and they rightfully blocked a troll that wasn’t contributing anything meaningful or constructive to the project.
Some people like being in abusive relationships it seems.
Only people who like apple (I was going to say fanboys here but I restrained myself) would contribute to posting Linux to Mac, so it logically follows that they wouldn’t like their preferred platform to be criticised.
Nice to see a corporation show some fear towards a community project.
Been very happily living in Asahi for the last few weeks. It’s buggy, but totally usable for a daily driver. So usable that I’m tempted to obliterate the macOS partition entirely.
You should keep it around, per the Asahi docs themselves, and marcan provides some additional context in a reddit comment which I’ve also quote here:
Can, yes. Should, no. It is not supported right now. You won’t be able to install Asahi if you first remove macOS, and removing it after requires messing with partitions using a USB boot image or similar, and will leave you without the ability to recover from certain problems without outright reinstalling macOS first, plus no firmware updates (which might become required in the future to enable certain features - do you really want to find out you can’t play newer games because you need a GPU firmware update and you have to reinstall macOS for that?).
We’ll have more options for this in the future, but right now we do not support it and if you go this way, you’re on your own.
That all leaves multiple copies of recoveryOS of course, which is a stripped-down version of macOS itself. It is not possible to remove recoveryOS and keep your machine functional at all. It is basically part of your BIOS.
You could try using
diskutil apfs resizeContainer <container ID> minimum(I don’t 100% recall if the last argument is actuallyminimumbut using the regular--helpshould give you the correct one) in macOS to shrink the macOS container to smaller than the Asahi installer typically allows, or use expert mode in the Asahi install script to override the macOS size check, possibly with fewer negative consequences than deleting it outright.Sorry if you already know all this but I thought I’d add it here just in case!
