I wish there was a portable, usb-run version of #Asahi#Linux for Silicon Macs. More people would try it out and actually use it that way, if it was easy and risk-free to their #MacOS partition. The current way to do that is two whole pages of arcane commands on a terminal. It needs automation.
@eugenialoli I’m sure that lots of folks have already cautioned you about running an OS from a flash drive and recommended at the very least a USB-connected SSD.
@popey You misunderstood. I'm talking about being a portable installation, installed properly on a usb stick. Not to simply boot from a usb stick in order to install it on an SSD, but to run it from there normally, as a proper installation (so it's not read-only). It's how I run Mint in one of my Intel macs too, I have it installed completely on a usb stick.
@eugenialoli Ah, Ok. Motivation, supply and demand. If there was more demand for a USB stick with Asahi on it, I'm sure someone would make a downloadable stick. Just like the installation instructions for Linux 20 years ago were hard. I imagine someone who got Asahi working on the internal disk, (which you need to set this up) has low motivation to make a stock. I could, but won't because I use Ubuntu and that guide is for Arch. 🤷
@popey Given the idiosyncrasies of mac users, i think they would prefer a linux ran directly from their usb, rather than "mutilating" (in their minds) their macos partition. So I think there's demand, but I don't think that the asahi team has honed on it.
@pomCountyIrregs@popey Why so to a home user? No one's talking using that installation method in an office. At home, if someone's gonna steal your stuff, they're gonna first go for the whole computer and not just the usb stick.
@eugenialoli I suspect it depends on the motivation for installing Asahi. I did it as a daily driver, that I would never do with USB, too fragile and slow. Given a Mac can “easily” be put back to factory settings with Time Machine or DFU, I am less worried about the mutilation aspect.
If you can find demand, maybe you can also find someone willing to build and host a usb stick build of it.
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