FEX
A fast usermode x86 and x86-64 emulator for Arm64 Linux (by FEX-Emu)
asahi-installer
Asahi Linux installer (by AsahiLinux)
| FEX | asahi-installer | |
|---|---|---|
| 43 | 9 | |
| 1,830 | 738 | |
| 4.1% | 2.0% | |
| 9.9 | 8.4 | |
| 3 days ago | 4 days ago | |
| C++ | Python | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
FEX
Posts with mentions or reviews of FEX.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-31.
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FEX 2305 Tagged!
"A fast usermode x86 and x86-64 emulator for Arm64"
- Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice On Android using Fex-Emu Turnip DXVK
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Genshin, compatibility, ARM processors, surface pro x, mac M1
Could try this https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX + wine/proton. But as always keep in mind that playing on non-supported platforms can lead to bans in future (never happened but who knows).
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Asahi Linux M1 GPU drivers can now run Windows games via Steam Proton
It's explained in the video, it uses https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX
- Asahi Linux got 24 games from steam running on M1 Mac mini.
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Apple holds press event showing off its ‘latest advances in gaming’
Steam is also funding an x86 tn ARM game emulator, which opens up the potential for it working on Android.
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Android tablets and Chromebooks are on another crash course – will it be different this time?
Valve is funding developers working on an x86-to-ARM layer, FEX. I'm assuming that the eventual end goal would be to run Steam on Android, one of the FEX developers was commenting on trying to get FEX to work on an S8 Tab Ultra.
- How to install Steam.
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How the f*** does Proton works so amazingly well?
Valve is also funding another translation layer, from x86 to ARM (see FEX).
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Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux
Additionally, game emulation won't be optimal until someone fixes this issue from FEX-Emu, which will allow that emulator to run on Apple Silicon. QEMU-user is currently your best option though it is dead slow. Box64 is currently pretty capable, however, it will not be able to run any 32-bit libraries (which even modern games ship a few of).
asahi-installer
Posts with mentions or reviews of asahi-installer.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-01.
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My Asahi M2 MacBook was stolen. It didn't have encryption
Sorry this happened to you. It is indeed correct that the Asahi installer does not support encryption, see https://github.com/AsahiLinux/asahi-installer/issues/137
It can be done, but it's not straightforward: https://davidalger.com/posts/fedora-asahi-remix-on-apple-sil...
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M2 MacBook keyboard, trackpad do not work when booting Asahi from USB
I opened an issue with more details here: Issue #213 · AsahiLinux/asahi-installer (github.com)
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Looking to reduce 35+ GB of "System Data" on macOS Ventura M1 MacBook Air
In addition to removing rosetta 2 as someone already said, you can clear out old macOS install stubs using this script. Note that you have to run it from recovery mode:
- Torvalds using Asahi
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Getting error after setting name for my OS during installation
I found this GitHub issue - https://github.com/AsahiLinux/asahi-installer/issues/103
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Heads up, the new macOS beta broken my Asahi installation
I've opened an issue on our GitHub to track macOS upgrade problems. Please post a comment there with the information I requested, so we can try to figure out what causes this.
- Install Linux from within Windows
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The first Asahi Linux Alpha Release is out! | Asahi Linux is a project that brings Linux to all M1 Macs
Ease of use and convenience will typically be the most attractive and viable option. I’m pretty sure you can take a look at what the script does here: asahi-installer
- NetBSD/Evbarm on Apple Silicon
What are some alternatives?
When comparing FEX and asahi-installer you can also consider the following projects:
box86 - Box86 - Linux Userspace x86 Emulator with a twist, targeted at ARM Linux devices
docs - Hardware and software docs / wiki
box64 - Box64 - Linux Userspace x86_64 Emulator with a twist, targeted at ARM64 Linux devices
distribution-macOS
hangover - Hangover runs simple Win32 applications on arm64 Linux
Unicorn Engine - Unicorn CPU emulator framework (ARM, AArch64, M68K, Mips, Sparc, PowerPC, RiscV, S390x, TriCore, X86)
kernel_emulator
HellTracer - A Linux x86/x86-64 tool to trace registers and memory regions.
x64dbg - An open-source user mode debugger for Windows. Optimized for reverse engineering and malware analysis.
open-source-games - A list of open source games.
toolbox - Tool for interactive command line environments on Linux