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Ferryman said:
Is Asahi functional enough to really bump the bar? Genuinely asking, I have a friend who is an unrepentant Macfag simply because he is in love with M* ARM, maybe I can de-transition him if Asahi werks well enough.
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Depends on your hardware, they're still lagging behind a lot from Apples Chipsets.
Get yourself preferably a standard M1 or M2 Laptop if you don't want to deal with breakages/unavailable features for a default Asahi Desktop experience.

Kinda wish they'd fix the unusable USB ports at boottime that even Gentoo pointed out:
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McKennai said:
Depends on your hardware, they're still lagging behind a lot from Apples Chipsets.
Get yourself preferably a standard M1 or M2 Laptop if you don't want to deal with breakages/unavailable features for a default Asahi Desktop experience.

Kinda wish they'd fix the unusable USB ports at boottime that even Gentoo pointed out:
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That USB warning on the Gentoo Wiki was published in May 2025.

From January 2026:
Debugging some #asahilinux USB issues with @janne and right now it looks like ATCPHY is even more cursed than we thought: At boot time, macOS powers up the usb2 PHY once, switches it to host mode and immediately shuts it down again even when no device is connected. I missed this so far but it looks like we actually need this if we want usb2 devices plugged in during boot to work reliably 🙃
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And the (likely) real fixes: https://lore.kernel.org/asahi/20260108-atcphy-coldboot-fix-v1-1-01c41c6e84f2@kernel.org/T/#u and https://lore.kernel.org/asahi/20260108-dwc3-apple-usb2phy-fix-v1-1-5dd7bc642040@kernel.org/T/#u

macOS briefly bringing up dwc3 and tearing it down again with no device connected was just a red herring, no idea why that happens.
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It’s likely sorted out now.
 
Has anyone ever done any BIOS modding in here, or do we have a thread for that level of black magic? I've an HP Elitebook 8770w that I want to flash a custom BIOS to, namely so I can put a more up to date GPU in it. Stock HP BIOS are uncooperative at best, and flat out obstructive at worse, additionally, if I flash a custom BIOS to it, I'll never get locked out again if I have to set a password, among other things.
 
Rust Troony said:
Holy shit after a few weeks of finally trying to figure out why my computer has been running like shit for a few months I figured it out. The memory clock speed of my GPU gets stuck on its lowest speed. This bug has been around for 7 months and randomly comes and goes it seems. No form of trying to fix it works outside removing every memory clock state other than the highest.
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A new hand bug touches the beacon kernel driver, this time causing every amd gpu to suddenly hard/soft crash, depending on the mood of the bug. I want every jeet and tranny in charge of maintaining the amdgpu drivers to kill themselves.

It seems like if you still have audio you can fix the lockup by turning of your monitor and waiting a few seconds before turning it back on. I fucking hate this. I fucking hate niggers. You can't even fix these bugs by using a older kernel because these niggers seperated linux firmware and the kernel, making even old kernels you build yourself use the latest firmware. At this point im hedging on going to either SteamOS, who has seems to also be dealing with this shit, as the kernel and mesa versions they use in the stable version are almost a year old now, or god forbid Windows 10 ltsc and firewalling everything but things I want to have an internet connection.

Edit: Nevermind. This bug appears to ALSO be months old, and randomly ALSO comes and goes, and it seems a lot of people are getting the issue on recent kernels. Luckily some chink from AMD appears to have fixed it.
 
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Darkholme's Dungeon said:
It's already happened in China. I made several posts about it. The MPS in China mandated secure bootloaders which cannot be unlocked with OEM specific codes for phones, and made the mandate for laptops and PCs for commercial use soon (this year). If you don't think companies in the US are licking their chops and trying to get congress to mandate this I don't know what to say.
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Offering shit products is one thing, mandating that products must be shitty, on the other hand, should be punishable by unusually cruel death.
 
Harvey Danger said:
Trying to piece this together and didn't see it discussed here yet.

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Yes, Lunduke etc, but it looks like he's summarizing it correctly. This ogre has been running for the past 5 years and seems like she got lucky nobody else wanted to run this year.

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Some of the info turning up about her is that she's married to another Indian Debian developer, who had pushed for her to become a developer while attacking other developers. This turned up several times in weird schizo blogs (archive), which includes this stunning picture of the duo.

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If his explanation of the process is accurate, the only way to defeat her candidacy now is for Debian voters to vote "none of the above", instead of her as the single candidate choice. This all seems thoroughly jeetified, but I can't figure out how important it actually is to Debian.
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So there's only one (1) candidate and she is Indian.
The enjeetification is real.
 
Rust Troony said:
At this point im hedging on going to either SteamOS, who has seems to also be dealing with this shit, as the kernel and mesa versions they use in the stable version are almost a year old now
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I made the move to SteamOS. Just a guide for people who also might want to use it.

You can force SteamOS to only use desktop mode by using:
steamos-session-select plasma-wayland-persistent

You can set a password by typing passwd in the terminal. Sadly I cant seem to figure out how to allow locking the screen.

Everything else just worked outside ROCM. SteamOS doesn't come with it by default and it hasn't been flatpaked yet. Luckily Valve added distrobox, a container method that effectively creates a contained linux distribution, allowing you to use pacman freely, I personally recommend using Kontainer through the discover store to make it easier to setup, however it seems like the GPU really doesn't like it, and it runs slow, probably some kind of bottleneck.
 
Vyse Inglebard said:
>She's a card-carrying liberal feminist
Oh no
>She's also a Pajeet
OH NOOOOOOOOOOOO
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feminist running debian: i sleep
jeet running debian: OH FUCK SELL EVERYTHING IT'S SO FUCKING OVER


Squishie PP said:
ARM-based Windows computers are already like this, unfortunately. So are Chromebooks and Chromeboxes; you actually need to open up the hardware and remove a screw in order to unlock it in most cases.
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Personally I think this is fine as long as the screw isn't hidden under the board or some shit that requires complete disassembly (like I've seen on some chromebooks). It reduces the risk from malicious actors getting brief physical access, and most of these laptops will beep at you on bootup if they detect that they've been opened up.

But I worry that eventually they'll take the screw away, and we already have niggerfaggots at google ensuring that the screw is in the most impossible to access place they can put it.
 
today i migrated from artix s6 kde wayland to artix s6 sonicDE xlibre
so far everything just works even nvidia which i did not expect
 
Nambona890 said:
Guess I finally have an actual reason to hate systemd now.
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Honestly, I was in support of it in the past but Poettering seems to have somehow gotten even more retarded and pushy. I don't know what it is about Germans, but when they hit middle age they become completely insufferable.
 
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