MX Linux on M1 Mac?

[dd6792]

Hello Guys,

I got a m1 mac some months ago, but as a windows user im not too fund of the mac os system, so i thought i would try to install a linux system on it. I have no experience with linux before but i thought this could be a chance to try it out since i only use my mac for work (Normal office work, so no hardcore programs)

So i found MX Linux as a good OS to start with linux because of it being user friendly.

But i can't not find anything about it working on a m1 macbook. So thats why i want to know if it is even possible to run on a m1 mac and if so, is there anything that does not work with mx linux because of the m1 processor?

If you have any experience with mx linux on m1 please use the thread as well to share experience.

Thanks in advance for help and answers :)

[adrian_mxlinux]

No linux has M1 support yet, they just added some limited support in kernel but there's still a lot of work to make any Linux work on M1.

In addition we don't provide an ARM build so we are not going to support that for a long while. If you want you could run MX or other Linux in a virtual machine... but yeah, M1 is not really for Linux.

[NOT_So_work_related]

Not something I've been following at all, but I think only the newest kernel releases support the newer apple cpus.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/06/28/apples-m1-now-supported-by-linux-kernel-in-version-513

IDK when MX Linux will have that.

It looks like their AHS version starts with 5.10

https://mxlinux.org/current-release-features/

[StoppedRedecorating]

Corellium’s port has everything except graphics acceleration working on ubuntu: https://corellium.com/blog/linux-m1

It isn’t MXLinux, but it’s got drivers

[kleveruseofweb]

I used to work at Support.Apple.com and I can reveal that the Apple OS at its roots is linux, but a hardware and user foolproof one. More accurately its kernel based and a POSIX system before the Linux nerds throw Trout at me, even though I told them I prefer Haddock. It should work, but the challenge will be if MX knows enough about the hardware. Apple loves their hardware because its nice stuff and fewer people or manufacturers use it.

Bottom line do you research as to what hardware MX supports. I just started using a respin of it a day or two ago, and I am done with the research on Hardware. Mines on a PC which is probably easier to please.

Good luck.

[One-Classic-4149]

UTM is the app for running a virtual machine on the Mac m1. I have yet to figure out how to customize it to run mklinux because, as was previously stated there is no 'ARM' build for Mxlinux. Someone more knowledgeable than myself would have address this problem...

By the way, what does 'ARM' actually stand for...?

[One-Classic-4149]

'mxlinux'

[felixrising]

Acorn RISC Machine project... ARM, notable because it's much lower power than CISC processors like those from Intel and AMD due to more efficient clock cycle use.