There is no encryption set on the root partition using the default Asahi linux install flow so will encrypt that btrfs partition after the fact.
Will try without using a live USB, wish me luck. 🤞
#asahi #linux #aarch64
Anyone running Linux on their M1 (or M2) Mac?
Here to share my journey.
https://asahilinux.org/ with Fedora is working really well, but got some annoyances due to the limited software available for aarch64.
The good things are:
- I learn to compile more things - looking at you Signal and Keybase
- Power efficiency and shared memory without the closed garden
- Fedora seems to be a very good distro (coming from Debian)
- Webcam, speakers, USBC ports just work
The (not so) bad so far:
- will think twice what software worth the hassle and no closed source stuff is available to build
- will need to master some emulators like qemu and Box86/Box64
- The built-in microphone hasn't been reverse-engineered yet
- Fingerprint sensor won't work
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Discussion
Root encryption on the M1 Mac running Asahi Fedora Remix is done for a while now.
I have set up LUKS while booting from another partition running Debian so GRUB2 doesn't get confused.
This was easier then having making a bootable USB work, which I still couldn't do.
All going well since, seems like it is a viable setup.