Comment by freetime2
10 months ago
> For a long time, well after we had a stable release, people kept claiming Asahi Linux and Fedora Asahi Remix in particular were “alpha” and “unstable” and “not suitable for a daily driver”
This is still my position on Asahi Linux: that it is not something that I would use as a daily driver nor recommend to others for use as a daily driver.
> “When is Thunderbolt coming?” “Asahi is useless to me until I can use monitors over USB-C” “The battery life sucks compared to macOS” (nobody ever complained when compared to x86 laptops…) “I can’t even check my CPU temperature” (yes, I seriously got that one).
These would be dealbreakers for me, too. To be clear, I am not saying that it is anyone's job to fix these issues for me. And this isn't meant as an attack on the Asahi Linux team - I think it's incredible what they have been able to do.
But those comments, without any larger context to demonstrate harassment or anything like that, just don't seem too bad to me. The language could be softened a bit, sure, but the criticisms themselves resonate with me and would be valid reasons to not use Asahi Linux IMO.
I feel like Asahi is pretty nice as a lightweight daily driver for web browsing, web development, and stuff like that. Obviously, heavy duty tasks like gaming, CAD, photo/video editing, etc are not quite there yet. I bought an M2 Macbook Air and run Asahi Linux full time and it's surprisingly smooth and bug-free (even smoother than my Arch Linux desktop tbh).
i don't think anyone on the asahi team doesn't know that there are missing functionalities. if they're dealbreakers for anyone, fine.
what's out of line is incessant reporting (via issues, emails, whatever) of what you consider a dealbreaker. that's my impression of what he's complaining about. let the people work. no one likes to respond "not yet" a billion times.
Is it incessant? I would expect the average Asahi Linux user to know how to search GitHub issues and just upvote a request for a certain feature. If many people are creating noise that isn't great, however understanding which functionalities people want most is helpful for deciding priorities.