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SW:Alternative Distros

Leif Liddy edited this page Apr 9, 2023 · 38 revisions

Several members of the community have contributed guides and pre-built artifacts in order to use other distros on Apple Silicon Macs. These efforts are listed here. Please remember that these are user-contributed, and the Asahi Linux project cannot provide support or any guarantee of compatibility, functionality, or safety.

Distro Maintainer Installation Guide
Alpine Linux IRC: mps (https://arvanta.net/alpine) https://arvanta.net/alpine/install-alpine-m1/
CentOS Stream https://github.com/ericcurtin https://github.com/ericcurtin/asahi-centosstream-builder
Debian https://thomas.glanzmann.de/ https://git.zerfleddert.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/m1-debian/
Fedora https://github.com/leifliddy https://github.com/leifliddy/asahi-fedora-builder
Gentoo
(LiveCD method)
IRC: chadmed (https://github.com/chadmed) Installing Gentoo with LiveCD
NixOS IRC: tpw_rules (https://github.com/tpwrules) https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-m1/blob/main/docs/uefi-standalone.md
Pop!_OS IRC: Lucy (https://github.com/Absolucy) https://github.com/pop-os/asahi-pop
Rocky Linux https://github.com/leifliddy https://github.com/leifliddy/asahi-rocky-builder
Ubuntu https://github.com/tobhe https://github.com/tobhe/ubuntu-asahi
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