Was looking at getting a macbook air with an m1 chip in it and running Asahi Linux on it. My question is how viable is it for daily life? E.g. browsing, torrenting, uni notes ect. Would it be equivalent to a regular x86 laptop running Linux? Or would I be missing useful features?

Edit: Another question is how it holds up against newer AMD laptops, as it is 3-4 years old at this point.

  • tyler@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    Mac comes built in with those shortcuts just by holding command. Command left and right is home and end. Command up and down is page up page down.

    And yeah there are definitely some holes? But Karabiner-Elements closes them up better than anything on windows does.

    For navigation by keyboard you need to turn off a bunch of the animations and it’s very very snappy. I use Hammerspoon and can jump between apps faster than on Linux and windows.