Asahi Linux
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April 8, 2026
I am running asahi remix with gnome full time now. I tried it a few months ago and switched back because i didn’t like KDE and didn’t gnow that gnome was a carbon copy of macos.
Really enjoying it. It is a lot faster, no issues with battery. I don’t miss the fingerprint reader as much as i thought.
Unfortunately i had to turn off advanced data protection in iCloud because there would be no way for me to get into it now that I have no apple devices running apple software. Hopefully i can get off iCloud and self-host everything soon.
My one big issue with asahi is that hardware video decoding is not supported which makes watching high bitrate video for long periods unusable.
It is also a shame to get degraded security, but considering I no longer have to run any proprietary software, combined with the increase in freedom, I would say it is worth it.
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