Post #544083
2026-03-06 00:04 UTC
This might be a stupid question but when using ashai can you run any normal linux software or does it have to be specifically built for arm64/apple silicon?
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@harsh3466@lemmy.ml 2026-03-06 00:12
It’s gotta be built for arm64
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@snek_boi@lemmy.ml 2026-03-06 00:32
I hope someday any normal Linux software will be usable in Apple hardware. Unfortunately, there are hurdles. One of the biggest hurdles was getting code accepted into the Linux kernel. This became very frustrating for the previous Asahi Linux lead developer. He would push upstream code and the Linux developers would not accept it. Why didn’t they accept it? Because it was written in memory-safe Rust and not in memory-unsafe C. Old Linux developers don’t want to deal with Rust. So they just refuse to include Asahi Linux updates into normal Linux software.