Kind of, but it’s from my FreeBSD days. It was early 2000s, and at that point I’d been using it since version 3.3, and I was toying with 4.4, and I was getting into kernel optimization. I started removing the things I didn’t need.
A lot of it was simple, such as firewire support, etc. Then I came to the section about peripherals. “AT keyboard? Yup, that’s going”
Welp, turns out PS/2 keyboards were built on top of the AT keyboard subsystem. Luckily I could SSH into it and revert the change.
Why do you think Ubuntu is the favourite distro at Microsoft? They’ve tried extinguishing Linux through suse, but are now back on the old EEE plan with canonical helping them.
Still the exploit is easier to avoid compared to windows viruses and stuff. Even with the linux popularity increasing there is already out there good solutions to prevent this kinda stuff like have SELinux installed, use firejail to run suspicious files, use proxies to visit weird sites (you can use proxychains + tor, a bit overkill but works if you don’t have a local proxy), etc.
Not to mention that one of the attack vectors of this exploit requires using a systemd feature which is the sysnetd which isnt going to work on other init systems. Reason why a lot of times minimalism can be superior to just having all the features + unnecessary ones out of the box.
Late to the party, but we’re talking long-term feedback, right? My point of comparison is a 2017 8th gen i5 dell 7385 with 8gb of ram, running Arch/Gnome.
I’m just out of a huge project involving Ardour, Audacity, kdenlive, Jack, Wireplumber and many gigs of media files on my 2023, brand new, M2 Pro, 16gb Ram 14inch mbp.
I installed Asahi Fedora Remix straight out of the box after updating the mac side (mandatory!). Install is indeed super-smooth. I choose to conform to defaults, and installed the KDE desktop variant ; as expected, I didn’t enjoy it and installed Gnome almost immediately. I’m a long time Gnome user fanatic tbh.
It Just Works, plain and simple.
I was expecting to be blown away by the performance, but it just feels "normal’, launching Firefox or whatnot isn’t that different from Linux on an old i5. It is snappy, but it’s not like Linux doesn’t work very well on average hardware.
Rendering video was admittedly faster, but I only worked on 1080p 45s to 4min stuff, so not a scientific measure here.
Battery life is good while running the Ardour multitrack DAW for instance. I noticed on macos, gaming on steam, that I can drain it pretty fast if I just play obliviously in the middle of the day. So not a bad battery, really usable work hours out of it - within workloads limits.
Sleep battery consumption is bad, about 50℅ a day. Better turn it off between things, and reboot.
…Which is what I do to my other laptop, it being plagued by S3 sleep issues. But booting the i5 is fast, so it’s OK. Boot times of the mbp isn’t that fast tho, again I was expecting more from the hardware.
Some software isn’t available on the Fedora repos or flatpak/flathub for the 64bits Arm architecture, but there’s much much that is available, including for me the latest wireplumber / jack stack which I do need IRL for work.
You will have to learn Fedora’s dnf package manager tool, but it’s “the same” as anything .deb, or about.
So there are minor annoyances pertaining to my use case, but it is more than bearable. I’d never have bought such device without the Asahi project, it is a great daily driver to live (and puzzle coworkers) with.
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