Bazzite on Apple Silicon

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Noel•1/21/25, 6:14 PM

https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/pull/2155

NNoel https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/pull/2155

Nripesh•1/21/25, 6:18 PM

My sad little draft PR

. Will be pushing massive changes soon hopefully.

Noel•1/21/25, 6:18 PM

All PRs start that way.

antheas•1/21/25, 6:20 PM

2500 commits?

Nripesh•1/21/25, 6:20 PM

@Niklas

Asahi is great in soo many things, but the only thing that keeps me from being my daily driver is lack of 120hz refresh rate, HDR and thunderbolt(need for USB C display port)

NNripesh @Niklas ⚡ Asahi is great in soo many things, but the only thing that keeps me f...

Noel•1/21/25, 6:21 PM

I use it as a server currently for my M1.

Noel•1/21/25, 6:21 PM

works great for Plex, would love to play with it as a desktop though.

NNoel I use it as a server currently for my M1.

Nripesh•1/21/25, 6:23 PM

I use it it to just look cool NGL.

Nripesh•1/21/25, 6:24 PM

Back when apple silicon was not a thing i used to use aarch linux as my daily driver, got really excited for asahi but got too used to mac unfortunately.

Noel•1/21/25, 6:25 PM

One thought that I had already, aren't the apple silicon drivers already in upstream Fedora or not yet?

Noel•1/21/25, 6:25 PM

I know there was a desire to get those to just be available and completely do away with Asahi at that point.

NNoel One thought that I had already, aren't the apple silicon drivers already in upst...

Nripesh•1/21/25, 6:25 PM

Very limited support actually.

Nripesh•1/21/25, 6:26 PM

I think the best place for us to extract the drivers would be asahi linux(fedora based)

Nripesh•1/21/25, 6:26 PM

They have GPU drivers in place which i do not think fedora upstream has atm

Nripesh•1/21/25, 6:26 PM

Not entirely sure

NNoel I know there was a desire to get those to just be available and completely do aw...

Niklas ⚡•1/21/25, 6:27 PM

well there is fedora asahi remix

Niklas ⚡•1/21/25, 6:28 PM

which is the "official" distro

Niklas ⚡•1/21/25, 6:28 PM

but for the best support you have to use linux-asahi and their patched stuff

NNiklas ⚡well there is fedora asahi remix

Noel•1/21/25, 6:28 PM

Yeah, I just remember a Q&A at SCALE that Neal commented that it would be nice to get all this upstreamed into Fedora.

Noel•1/21/25, 6:28 PM

maybe I'm misremembering.

Nripesh•1/21/25, 6:29 PM

https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/SW%3AAlternative-Distros

Again users try a lot but it is not easy reverse engineering all the ___ proprietary SOCs apple tend to create.

Noel•1/21/25, 6:30 PM

Yeah, I know they have to keep a matrix for Fedora Asahi on what works for each model of Mac.

NNiklas ⚡but for the best support you have to use linux-asahi and their patched stuff

Nripesh•1/21/25, 6:30 PM

and some of their unpatched stuff too(maybe)[https://github.com/AsahiLinux/linux/pull/159]

NNoel Yeah, I know they have to keep a matrix for Fedora Asahi on what works for each ...

Nripesh•1/21/25, 6:31 PM

Yup: https://asahilinux.org/fedora/#device-support

HikariKnight•1/21/25, 6:31 PM

ideally i think all the apple silicon work will be done in 1 repo or something that just creates artifacts that get pulled in by the respective projects build scripts (ex: bazzite. bluefin, aurora)

but i will leave that to the engineers to figure out

Noel•1/21/25, 6:31 PM

I think the bigger challenge will be lack of flatpak support for ARM.

Noel•1/21/25, 6:32 PM

Firefox doesn't have a flatpak at the moment, so we'd have to find some way to run that through a translation layer.

NNoel I think the bigger challenge will be lack of flatpak support for ARM.

HikariKnight•1/21/25, 6:32 PM

biiiig image, everything included /s

Noel•1/21/25, 6:32 PM

or use something that is supported.

Noel•1/21/25, 6:32 PM

Brave I believe has an ARM version of the flatpak.

NNoel I think the bigger challenge will be lack of flatpak support for ARM.

Nripesh•1/21/25, 6:32 PM

No i do not think this is a major issue right now, most of the flatpacks in bazzite had arm support

HikariKnight•1/21/25, 6:33 PM

its going to be "experimental" nonetheless

Nripesh•1/21/25, 6:33 PM

Very few don't but there are alternatives for it. This was what I was doing today btw lol. Either making sure they have support, else find alternatives.

Noel•1/21/25, 6:34 PM

yeah, we'd have to talk with @Kyle Gospo about how we would support steam. I know there is a translation layer being worked on for Linux to make that easier.

Niklas ⚡•1/21/25, 6:35 PM

i think the official gaming package uses a VM and Fex-EMU to run steam and games

NNiklas ⚡i think the official gaming package uses a VM and Fex-EMU to run steam and games

Noel•1/21/25, 6:35 PM

that's what it was!

Noel•1/21/25, 6:35 PM

thank you

Noel•1/21/25, 6:35 PM

https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX

NNoel Firefox doesn't have a flatpak at the moment, so we'd have to find some way to r...

Nripesh•1/21/25, 6:35 PM

There is a translation layer already in place for translating x86_64 binaries to arm I believe.