Asahi Linux on M3

Support for Apple M3 series machines has been merged into the Asahi Linux installer, making the OS officially support Macs with M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max SoCs (but not the M3 Ultra Mac Studio). According to the announcement, almost everything supported on M1/M2 machines now works on M3, including the webcam, internal microphones, USB at up to 10 Gb/s, hardware-accelerated video decoding including AV1, WiFi, and Bluetooth.

However, full DCP (Display Coprocessor) support and the GPU remain major exceptions; the team promises more news in the coming months and cautions users not to expect performant or power-efficient 3D acceleration right now. Because much of this work is fresh, support is gated behind the installer's Expert mode. Interested users can run `curl -L https://alx.sh/ | EXPERT=1 sh` in a macOS terminal, follow the prompts, and then perform a system upgrade with `dnf upgrade --refresh` after installation.

The team intends to drop the Expert requirement in time for the Fedora Linux 45 beta release, barring regressions. Known limitations include non-functional sleep due to limitations with the firmware-provided framebuffer — to be addressed once full DCP support is wired up for M3 — and HDMI ports on equipped MacBooks are currently disabled for the same reason. The Mac Studio (M3 Ultra) is not yet supported.

The announcement credits supporters on OpenCollective and GitHub Sponsors, noting that M3 support is the culmination of years of work and that community funding enabled access to M3 hardware for the developers. They also invite feedback and promise further updates.