Asahi Linux on M3

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It’s been a while since we did a blog post outside of the progress reports, and today’s as good an occasion for one as any; support for M3 series machines has now been merged into the installer. In other words, Asahi Linux now officially supports Macs with an M3 series SoC!

Linux support for M3 series SoCs and the machines powered by them is now in a state where almost everything supported on the M1 and M2 series machines just works. This includes the webcam, internal microphones, USB (up to the hardware limit of USB 3 10 Gb/s), hardware accelerated video decoding including support for AV1 , WiFi, Bluetooth, and much more! The only major exceptions remain full DCP support and the GPU, which we will have more news on in the coming months . Do not expect performant or power-efficient 3D acceleration right now.

Given that a lot of this work is fresh, support is gated behind the installer’s Expert mode. Users who wish to give Asahi Linux a try on an M3 series machine can do so by running

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