Yeah, got a new work laptop recently, MacBook Pro 16″, M3 Max/36GB/1TB. But Asahi Linux is not ready for M3 yet.
And I have VMware Fusion, then I tried a few linux distributions with arm64/aarch64 support.
- Ubuntu 23.10(mantic) – Server install image
- GNOME on Wayland works fine, but there are some bugs for GNOME on xorg, no refresh when UI changes, need to move mouse to get updated, submitted a ticket for it
- openSUSE Tumbleweed KDE 5 – search “iso”, choose openSUSE-Tumbleweed-KDE-Live-aarch64-Current.iso
- KDE 5 both X11 and Wayland work fine, but it’s not KDE 6. openSUSE only provides KDE6 on x86_64, not arm64 yet.
- Fedora Rawhide – the .iso file
- After installed, Plasma(Wayland) is the only option for KDE6, but I got black screen. I reported here.
- After a few days searching, find out KDE6 needs 3D, then in VMWare Fusion, Settings for the vm, check Display->Accelerate 3D Graphics, then everything works fine.
- But Fedora Rawhide or Fedora 40 only supports gcc 14, there is still compile failure with qtbase dev
- Arch Linux – via Archboot
- Got KDE 6 via “plasma-meta” package group
- It uses gcc-12 as default, then found an issue to build qtbase dev
- KDE neon
- there is no arm64 iso yet, submitted a ticket for it
Note: 2024-03-20 updated, added Arch Linux and KDE neon.