Dark Side of Apple Silicon: How I Bricked and Revived My Mac

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Ihave always considered Mac my go-to device for entertainment, coding, and doing the things I love in general.

However, since the migration to Apple Silicon, which brought a lot of great enhancements to the Mac ecosystem, I also felt I wanted to do things differently. Which is exactly what Apple promoted at its core: Think different.

After 3 years of using my beloved MacBook Air, I decided to try Asahi Linux. Since it’s supposed to work decently on Apple Silicon hardware, it should be a great choice in theory.

The reason? I was tired of the boundaries of macOS. With every single new release, I feel like the focus is to close down the Operating System as much as possible, pushing unwanted AI bloatware and things like that.

As much as I love my Mac, I’m not liking the OS as much as before. Even tools like HomeBrew feel like plugging a hole in a sinking ship.

Installation

Technically, there is nothing complicated about installing Asahi Linux. You run a simple script:

curl https://alx.sh | sh

That shrinks the main volume of your macOS installation (you choose the size you want to leave for it), sets up a bootloader, unpacks the system, and reboots into Asahi.