I daily drive my personal Macbook air M2 running Asahi (only booted into OSX twice in the time I’ve owned it). I really like the experience of Linux (Fedora) on Apple hardware.

However, its still got some growing pains before most folks would be happy with it as their primary. One of those limitations abslutely applies to the Neo. Asahi Linux on 8GB of RAM is VERY cramped. I’ve got 24GB of RAM and even I run into limitations sometimes. The other issue is the current maturity level of power management. Asahi does have full use of the low standby power states. This means that even with “sleep” your battery will exhaust itself in less than a day if its not plugged in. The alternative is to power down the unit entirely, which works fine to save the battery, but means having to open all your applications back up when you power it back up. Since Mac hardware doesn’t use ACPI, hibernation is also not available, which would also be a fine way to address this.

None of this is criticism agianst the Asahi team. They’ve done AMAZING things so far and what exists today is fully usable to me. Improvements also come early and often. The team is amazing!

However, Macbook Neo probably won’t be a good use case for Asahi Linux for the forseeable future.