PKGBUILDs VS asahi-fedora-builder

Hardware acceleration is not upstream and does not have a stable kernel interface yet. You need to use the corresponding tag in our repo to the kernel you are running. The mapping isn't really maintained anywhere explicitly but you can look at the commit log of our PKGBUILDs repo to get an idea, since I keep them matched there.

I finally got them working. Here's what I did: sudo pacman -S linux-asahi-headers base-devel git clone https://github.com/AsahiLinux/PKGBUILDs.git cd PKGBUILDs/linux-asahi makepkg sudo cp -rf src/linux-asahi-6.2-11/build/edge/ /usr/lib/modules/6.2.0-asahi-11-1-edge-ARCH/build

git clone https://github.com/AsahiLinux/PKGBUILDs.git cd PKGBUILDs/linux-asahi

Because it's a separate package (linux-asahi), that provides the linux package name, so it stands in for the standard kernel persistently. Only new versions of linux-asahi can update it automatically, you'd have to manually install another kernel package to switch it out. See the PKGBUILDs guide for more information on how this works.

So the differences between my build https://github.com/leifliddy/asahi-fedora-builder and the "offical" https://asahi-fedora-remix.org/ are as follows. 1. The asahi-repos-edge and edge kernel are installed by default **that's not the case with the offical Asahi Fedora Remix build 2. grub will boot from the latest kernel by default ** there's an issue with Asahi Fedora Remix in that regard https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Asahi#Upgrading\_to\_kernel-edge\_(for\_accelerated\_graphics) with my build, there's no need to run that grubby command everytime you install a new kernel 3. I use this script which makes transitioning from uboot --> grub much faster https://github.com/leifliddy/asahi-firstboot/blob/main/sbin/create-efi-bootloader Relying solely on the BOOTAA64.EFI bootloader provided by shim-aa64 is way too slow at the moment (for me anyway) 4. The Grub menu on my build is not hidden and displays correctly. All in the all, the differences are quite minor. The exact same asahi repos are used: https://pagure.io/fedora-asahi/asahi-repos/tree/main I only provide a minimal build though. So if you want GNOME or KDE pre-installed -- then use the offical build https://asahi-fedora-remix.org/ Although, it's ridiculously easy to just run dnf group install 'Fedora Workstation' or dnf group install 'KDE (K Desktop Environment)'

Personally, I would avoid Ubuntu for beginners. I'm not trying to gatekeep/prevent you from using what you want, but Ubuntu is doing some questionable things (e.g. preventing the use of Flatpak). If you want something easy like Ubuntu, Fedora has an Asahi port (https://github.com/leifliddy/asahi-fedora-builder), and I think I've heard that it will be officially supported eventually, but don't take my word for that. The installer linked above doesn't provide a desktop environment, so read the entire Readme to see to set up WiFi and then look up how to install GNOME on Fedora if you want something capable yet easy to use.

Here’s a link https://github.com/leifliddy/asahi-fedora-builder. Basically you run a script on MacOS as you would the regular Asahi install. The result is a bare bones Fedora install. Just follow the instructions to connect to the internet through wifi and then use dnf to install a desktop environment. After that, its pretty much like any other Fedora install.

I followed the guide here for a minimal Fedora install https://github.com/leifliddy/asahi-fedora-builder

Not to be a downer (or an "upper"?), but anyone can have a m2 with Fedora on it right now. asahi-fedora-builder

So https://github.com/leifliddy/asahi-fedora-builder is my project.