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53 points ackyshake 1 hour ago 15 comments

shikck200 33 minutes ago | parent

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?

realusername 25 minutes ago | parent

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.

Gigachad 10 minutes ago | parent

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.

cornedor 24 minutes ago | parent

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.

z3ratul163071 7 minutes ago | parent

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.

ADevWithAnIdea 16 minutes ago | parent

Shameless plug for my own project:

https://gravitylinux.org

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!

mgrandl 13 minutes ago | parent

What about ProMotion/120hz and HDR? Last I checked Asahi didn’t really make full use of the Macbook Display. But very interesting!

ADevWithAnIdea 12 minutes ago | parent

Works! The code is public at https://github.com/GravityLinux/linux

We also have vrr!

aroman 11 minutes ago | parent

> 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.

tommica 7 minutes ago | parent

Its the monetizing part that makes me think its not Omarchy - they have no monetizing things.

ADevWithAnIdea 5 minutes ago | parent

They're referring to Omarchy, it's very clear on their IRC

throwaway13337 3 minutes ago | parent

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 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 take action.

lakeviewterrace 3 minutes ago | parent

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.