Read the linked article.
Could the projects bring in stuff from omarchy? Omarchy is a toy, but they did slop the osx thing, so maybe some ideas can be ported over?
I’ve just build the kernel from Omarchy on my fedora asahi remix and got thunderbolt and Touch ID working. You do need to patch m1n1 with their changes as well. But I’ve been able to finally ditch an extra usb hub and hdmi cable.
In the PR’s that were merged in that kernel I also see they are actively working towards m4 and m5 as well. Must be hard for Asahi to keep up this way.
Asahi is against LLMs so they won’t.
Not sure what will happen when people will directly contribute to the Linux kernel with LLM patches though for these devices, I guess they will have to live with it.
Shameless plug for my own project:
Spoiler: We have Vulkan 1.4 working, all of M4 and most of M5 working, are making significant progress towards full suspend to ram (no version of Asahi supports this) and this will all be shipped to users very soon!
Some time ago, we were made aware of multiple attempts to exploit our permissive licensing to hijack our work, with a direct view to replacing the project and aggressively monetising Linux on Apple Silicon.
Is this referring to Omarchy? Anyone have context? TBH I’m surprised their work was ever MIT-licensed instead of GPL.
Its the monetizing part that makes me think its not Omarchy - they have no monetizing things.
Is Omarchy trying to monetize Linux?
I mean, I get the poisoning the well of open source thing that some companies do. I didn’t think Omarchy was trying to do that.
With how good LLMs are at reverse engineering, I’ve been looking forward to being able to ditch MacOS and still have decent hardware soonish.
Taking back the ownership of our devices to run our software is the positive future LLMs are giving us. We need only to take action.
They’re referring to Omarchy, it’s very clear on their IRC
Imagine deliberately buying a $2000+ computer that doesn’t work with and is actively hostile towards your OS of choice, then embarking on a multi-year bitch-fest to shoehorn the OS onto it.
I struggle to wrap my mind around it. It’s like buying an EV so you can convert it to work on gasoline.
Cool, I’m glad someone is taking a more aggressive and LLM friendly approach to doing Linux on Mac. Too bad there’s no M3 since that’s what I have 
Not sure if it would be useful for you, but I did get an M3 GPU driver kinda working (it boots KDE, runs Quake and GLXGears, etc) but isn’t quite usable yet. But feel free to yank the code if it’s helpful: https://github.com/SuperDisk/asahi-plus-slop
What about ProMotion/120hz and HDR? Last I checked Asahi didn’t really make full use of the Macbook Display. But very interesting!
Works! The code is public at https://github.com/GravityLinux/linux
We also have vrr!
Sure, but a human could read the code and look for ideas/parts and write the actual code better than an AI can. Omarchy is 99% hype, but the fact that its working on osx is telling me that it is indeed a goal you can accomplish. I rather not have my OS be a slopfest, so thats why asahi is way better than omarchy ever can be.
Asahi is patches on top of the linux kernel. If you independently get your drivers in to the kernel which does allow LLMs, the drivers will end up on Asahi too.
I really don’t get why people even start with permissive licenses if they have people they don’t like to use their software or if they’re just going to go “not like that” at the first real use.
It seems like many times it’s open source but “just to look”.
sorry to put a dent in your fantasy world, but omarchy is awesome for day-to-day work, great upgrade on top of arch which is also awesome.
I don’t.
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MacBooks are still among the nicest if not the nicest laptops hardware-wise, so some people like to run Linux on it.
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People have older Macs that they like to repurpose. E.g., we still have an M1 Mini that was used by our daughter before she got handed down a MacBook from my wife. It’s now collecting dust, but I might install Linux to use it as a headless server.
Also, this is Hacker News.
How do you justify calling it a toy when it does certain quite fundamental things a lot better?
I believe that’s what parent was saying.