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Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead (marcan.st)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/linux

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[–] BB_C 9 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Sure, there were/are still some bits and pieces of hardware support missing, but the overall experience rivaled or exceeded what you could get on most x86 laptops.

But then also came the entitled users. This time, it wasn’t about stealing games, it was about features. “When is Thunderbolt coming?” “Asahi is useless to me until I can use monitors over USB-C” “The battery life sucks compared to macOS” (nobody ever complained when compared to x86 laptops…) “I can’t even check my CPU temperature” (yes, I seriously got that one).

how many levels of dissonance is that?

[–] FizzyOrange 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I assume he meant Linux on x86 laptops, where I can confirm battery life is atrocious and support for random display things is also pretty bad. My laptop still wont do more than 30 Hz over HDMI (works fine with DisplayPort though).

[–] BB_C -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

            
              Not all x86 laptops are like you describe.
Non-Apple ARM laptops exist. They in fact predate Apple's move to ARM. Not only that, Linux was actually the primary target platform for many of them.

[–] BatmanAoD 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The bit you quoted from the post explicitly said "most x86 laptops", not "all".

[–] BB_C 1 points 1 week ago

even if he wrote "half", he would still be wrong, and still suffering from multiple levels of dissonance.

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