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| 2025-12-17 |
Asahi Linux explores protecting Apple disks from being wiped by installers |
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The Asahi Linux team have published a progress report in which the developers talk about improvements going into the project - which enables Linux to run on Apple M-series computers. One of the challenges the Asahi project faces is allowing users to install a distribution on Apple hardware without wiping parts of the disk which contain essential information. The project is now working with developers from other projects to hide these key partitions on the disk so they are not wiped during automated partitioning. "In an ideal world, installing Linux on an Apple Silicon Mac should be as easy as using the Asahi Installer to prep the machine, then booting your favourite distro's live image and installing from there. Some distros, such as Gentoo, are already taking this approach. Gentoo can get away with this because the partitioning is entirely manual and users almost always follow the documentation step-by-step; a little guidance and care on the user's part is enough to avoid most partitioning mishaps. However, distros with a graphical installer will typically offer to automatically partition a user's disk with the distro's defaults. These tools are mostly designed around the PC, and will happily wipe out the entire target disk. We obviously cannot allow this to happen, and the fact that it is highly likely means that we cannot support a traditional, mainstream install approach. Yet."
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