As of writing, Asahi Linux developers still haven't yet worked out or finished the PMU support, DisplayPort Alternate Mode, Thunderbolt, USB3, SEP, Neural Engine, TouchID, keyboard backight, web camera, video encode/decode, ProRes Codec, microphone support, internal speaker support, and other elements. It's important to note though that getting the Apple M2 going on Linux requires basically using Asahi Linux with the kernel changes still to be upstreamed, etc. The setup experience was as smooth as with the Apple M1 and in a short time was able to dual-boot into Linux on the Apple M2. In trying out the latest (experimental) Asahi Linux, the experience went surprisingly smooth considering the youth of this port. It was just last month that Asahi Linux introduced experimental M2 support after a few weeks of Hector Martin and others hacking the newly-released Apple M2 wares. All of these laptops were tested under Arch Linux (x86_64) and the Arch-based Asahi Linux (M1/M2). The new Apple MacBook Air with M2 was benchmarked for this article against the AMD Ryzen U "Rembrandt" Zen 3+, Intel Core i7 1280P "Alder Lake P", an AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX "Cezanne H", and also for reference an Apple Mac Mini M1 model. Given the significant interest from Phoronix readers about how well Apple M2 performs on Linux, especially after it was noted Linus Torvalds using an Apple MacBook Air M2, here are the first of many benchmark articles to come looking at how well Apple's M2 performs under Linux against Intel/AMD x86_64 competition.
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