Asahi Linux now supports M3-series Macs [LWN.net]

The Asahi Linux project has announced that support for Apple's M3-series chips has been added to the Asahi installer.

Linux support for M3 series SoCs and the machines powered by them is now in a state where almost everything supported on the M1 and M2 series machines just works. This includes the webcam, internal microphones, USB (up to the hardware limit of USB 3 10 Gb/s), hardware accelerated video decoding including support for AV1, WiFi, Bluetooth, and much more! The only major exceptions remain full DCP support and the GPU, which we will have more news on in the coming months. Do not expect performant or power-efficient 3D acceleration right now.

See the blog post for other current limitations of M3 support.

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Posted Sep 9, 2026 14:04 UTC (Wed) by ryanduve (subscriber, #127786) [Link] (2 responses)

I got an M3 MacBook Pro from work last year, so I think this is the first time I can try Asahi. Can anyone else here that's taken the plunge tell me whether it is easy to revert back to MacOS if I don't like it?

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Posted Sep 9, 2026 18:28 UTC (Wed) by intgr (subscriber, #39733) [Link]

Yes, it's easy to revert. The installer sets Linux up as dual boot -- if you want to get rid of Asahi later, just delete the partition.

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Posted Sep 15, 2026 12:16 UTC (Tue) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Yes, in fact, if you don't set Asahi as the default to boot, rebooting in Linux will drop you into macOS. I don't know how well macOS updates work when it reboots into Linux in between though.