You will see a series of prompts that guide you through resizing your macOS partition (if necessary) and installing your new OS. The installer is designed to be as self-explanatory as possible. You can learn how to delete these to truly free up space here. This is caused by local Time Machine snapshots taking up the “free” space in your volume. If you use Time Machine, you may find that you do not have enough free space. The installer will download 700MB ~ 4GB of data, depending on the OS you select.If you want to disable this check, enable expert mode when prompted. For example, if you have 60GB of free space, you will be able to shrink macOS by up to 22GB by default, freeing up 22GB for the new Linux install and leaving 38GB of remaining free space in the macOS partition. You need 15GB for Asahi Linux Desktop, but macOS itself needs a lot of free space for system updates to work, so the installer will expect you to leave 38GB of extra slack in macOS by default to avoid shooting yourself in the foot.At least 53GB of free disk space (Desktop install).macOS 12.3 or later, logged in as an admin user.M1, M1 Pro, or M1 Max machine (Mac Studio excluded).Pay close attention to the messages the installer prints, especially at the end! System requirements Ready to give it a shot? Make sure to update your macOS to version 12.3 or later, then just pull up a Terminal in macOS and paste in this command: What this means is that users who install it will be able to keep up with all future improvements by simply upgrading their packages - no reinstalling necessary. That said, we welcome everyone to give it a try - just expect things to be a bit rough.īehind this scenes, this release brings with it several future compatibility features. It is intended for developers and power users if you decide to install it, we hope you will be able to help us out by filing detailed bug reports and helping debug issues. Keep in mind that this is still a very early, alpha release. This is only the beginning, and things will move even more quickly going forward! We’re really excited to finally take this step and start bringing Linux on Apple Silicon to everyone. It’s been a long while since we updated the blog! Truth be told, we wanted to write a couple more progress reports, but there was always “one more thing”… So, instead, we decided to take the plunge and publish the first public alpha release of the Asahi Linux reference distribution! The first Asahi Linux Alpha Release is here!

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