Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon in Practice (2022) (opens in new tab)

What does the Venn diagram look like for:

“Linux is too much work so that’s why I use Apple products”

AND

“I’m putting in the work to install partially working Linux on my Apple Mx laptop and loving it”?

Do they share members?

How does this compare to Asahi in 2025? In my experience, Asahi's been great

Asahi Linux totally has graphics acceleration on M1 and M2.

Parts of this gist have been updated in May, but sections date back to 2022 and earlier. Some of the links I clicked are no longer relevant, such as the sections about upstreaming parts of code. Since they didn't link the actual patches (just a search query for their author name) I don't know exactly which patches they were referring to or what their status is.

Does anyone have a more up to date resource?

A gist is such a weird way to run a project like this!

Basically what this seems to be about is adding full native acceleration support for Mac OS hosts to QEMU (audio, GL, etc.), to enable running a desktop Linux guest effectively, but it's so hard to follow what's going on that I'm not certain what to actually do to get the Best Possible QEMU on OSX Host.