This is a week after someone tried to nerf Rust in the kernel. I hate shit like this.
Bad for Linux. I see Asahi Linux on Apple hardware as being the “best Linux” for consumer use (and home servers) moving forwards.
I’ve been a paying supported of Asahi since the Patreon launched. I’m curious to hear why you think it is “best” for consumers and servers?
I’ve only installed Asahi one time, just to kick the tires. I think I reverted to MacOS after about two days. I’m a MacOS guy first, Linux second, but I love choice and want Linux on Apple hardware, thus I love Asahi. I’m more of a spectator (on Apple silicon; I’ve run Linux on x86 for a decade), so any insight is appreciated.
I was macOS (desktop) and Linux (servers), but over time it just became cumbersome to cater to the - while Unix - different environment on the Macs all the time. I’ve now converted over the last Macbook Pro to Linux but what I really want is a Linux distribution really made specifically for the Macs and making full use of their somewhat special hardware.
If you’re more at home with macOS then this doesn’t apply to you of course :) A lot of the software I use is from the open source community where Mac gets supported because it’s possible to compile for it but it’s always an afterthought.
(Servers? Yeah that might surprise people - but the performance of Apple Silicon is really very interesting for a lot of tasks where you need “GPU-speedup” without installing a full GPU)
Thanks for the feedback / update.
To be clear I don’t know anything about the DMA API, but is it that the rust devs want to change the API to be friendlier to Rust code rather than translate it? Couldn’t they make like a library or something instead?
No, this is fallout from a patchset adding exactly the rust library you suggest to use the DMA library. And despite this only having changes in the rust/kernel tree, the maintainer of kernel/dma showed up to NAK the patch just because he doesn’t like the idea of rust code in the kernel.
Original Patch Set Thread: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250108122825.136021-1-abdiel.janulgue@gmail.com/
Some of the comments on that article made me realise I’m a bit out of the loop: what makes Asahi linux “woke”?
It is sad though that there is so much drama around linux development. It’s easy for me to say this, but I do think it’s important that there is a switch to a newer language like Rust away from C eventually.I do think it’s important that there is a switch to a newer language like Rust away from C eventually.
The problem is you can’t come in swinging to be let into the party, there are processes and tests to be done.
There have been talks and efforts about bringing Rust to Linux for more than a decade. This is not something that has been swift.
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What the actual fuck are you on about? This is a technical argument about whether rust should be allowed innthe Linux kernel and the impact of that decision on devs, you absolute troglodyte.
What the actual fuck are you on about?
I assumed they were trying to explain
what makes Asahi linux “woke”?
So what?
I don’t think there is a “what” - he was just explaining the wokeness.
The explanation came out as aggressive in a way that antagonizes the Asahi maintainers.
Usually people who explain “woke” in such a manner seem to be the types who are actively hostile to LGBTQ+. There are a few LGBTQ+ people who do make it their entire identity instead of one facet of themselves and I understand how annoying that can be, but at this point I’m a lot less likely to believe “this is someone who turns ‘How is the weather today?’ with a stranger into a trans rights discussion” and more likely to believe “this person just hates trans people and is trying to frame the trans person poorly so I resent the trans person and not them.”
I 100% agree with you, and my apologies if I came off as hateful, I really don’t think I am, but my problems are only with the people who make it their entire identity as you say, they are just exhausting humans in general and I don’t really care how they want to identify or whatever, I would pose the same arguments to people of any persuasion if there was a sizeable number of them doing it.
The downvotes are kind of a proof of what you were talking about. So quick to try to censor your response. Did they even catch the question “what makes it woke?”
