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Generated my grub configuration as grub.conf

This one took a stupid amount of time to debug - but on the other hand, when grub failed it did with "can't find any bootable thingy" and not "missing configuration file" as, in my later opinion, it should.

~~Life~~ Linux is a harsh mistresses, sometimes.

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.

Now, 3 fingers swipe up, and Spin The Cube, Dude!

That Fedora Spin just works. This afternoon I fired up mine to a colleague, he was blown away: I've got the Spinning Cube! And the Wobbly Windows! Dzoinggg!

But seriously (tho I love my Cube), kdenlive, Ardour, the works, and all on modern pipewire - just works. It's what I need, it is indeed fantastic work, both from the Asahi team and the Fedora people.

(Yes, I had to do all those things to get Netflix, yikes)

I want to know more about this picture.

• Is it on display in an Haunted House exhibition to frighten children?
• Does the owner of these racks sleeps next to it, and is that under his mum's house?
• Can it run doom?

Which you should absolutely do even if you snapshot the eff out of your system. What about hardware failure, eh? Can't snap that nvidia shit can you?

Tumbleweed does it, comes preconfigured out of the box. TBH I'm trying to get the same on Arch & fail. The snapshot-before-change are easy enough, but reverting is where I fail.

Si does tumbleweed, two-clicks rollback from the GRUB menu

THIS!

Not one more repository to add, sign, reload at each update. And can get compromised.

Not one more piece of software to run that may, or may not, run properly (looking at you ProtonVPN)

Just download the wireguard or openvpn configs to some desired exit points, load them into NetworkManager as described, and BINGO you have an integrated way of switching desired location, a visual icon in the taskbar confirming your status, and no extra hassle.

Did you know that qbittorrent can be told to only work if the VPN is on? There are places where it matters.

And to answer your question, no, that is not normal. If a piece of software isn't available for your distribution, then consider finding another. Like, here, using NetworkManager to do the job!

I'd push this further: I install what I need now, and then install anything else when needed. Old installs get bloated because of shit we pull over time. A new one has to be fresh. When testing a new distro you wanna see it at its (default) best.