Ambitious but realistically, it looks like a single-developer project and that just doesn't seem viable considering the challenges are the same faced by Asahi.
The logo is begging for trouble too, if you were an actual fruit shop and had that logo since 1975 they'd go after you for trademark infringement. Using it as a logo for an alternative OS specifically for Mac probably constitutes actual trademark infringement.
Good observations. Even if this doesnt become _the_ project, hopefully this takes few steps forward which then inspires something else .. and the dream goes on.
Good to have more Linux-compatible hardware, but currently x86-64 is a safer bet for compatibility. Asahi, Snapdragon ARM,.. are all half baked Linux projects
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The logo is begging for trouble too, if you were an actual fruit shop and had that logo since 1975 they'd go after you for trademark infringement. Using it as a logo for an alternative OS specifically for Mac probably constitutes actual trademark infringement.
That is all.
Evidence to support this idea, from a Red Hat developer in the area of ARM support:
His 2015 attempt:
https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2015/09/21/aarch64-desktop...
It failed. Arm on the desktop on Linux was not usable.
A decade later, he tried again.
His 2025 attempt starts here:
https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2025/07/07/arm-desktop-202...
It failed. Arm on the desktop on Linux was still not usable last year.
I think the proposition that it's half-baked is strong enough to at least discuss, not mock.