Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With Caveats

Here's the blog post from the Asahi devs announcing this: https://asahilinux.org/2026/09/m2-episode-1/

Reverse-engineering Apple's custom silicon is basically the modern equivalent of repairing a spaceship while it's actively launching. Incredible work by the Asahi team!

Lack of sleep and HDMI support is real roadblock for adoption. Hope they gets past soon.

I am wondering how much the spec changes per M-chip iteration? I think that after some iterations, the spec stays the same, no?

Why Apple does not at least provide the specs to the community? So much wasted effort when they can just share a pdf.

This is really incredible work but so frustrating that its necessary

Some big caveats but still amazing progress!

Does USB work already or is that a 2027 item?

This is great news.

Hoping for M4 to the latest chip.

We need Ashai to support more chips.

Let me know when we get M4 support.

Still no thunderbolt support.

I thought development officially ended?

I'm not sure I understand the target user for Asahi.

Is this someone that only wants to run Linux and wants to use their GPU on Linux? Seems like this is not the case, yet.

Or, is this for someone that wants to dual boot and use Linux sometimes, and then reboot into MacOS when they want to use the GPU?