For those who do not know, asahi project until now has only worked on m1 and m2 macbooks till now (newest ones are m5). While I do not remember the technical details as to why it has not worked on m3 yet, here are official pages for support - https://asahilinux.org/fedora/#device-support and more detailed https://asahilinux.org/docs/platform/feature-support/m3/ , but the other day in some thread someone mentioned that the way asahi folks got it working was to load some vms at very early stages of boot, and that way they got stuff working, which was changed (here is link to their comment, though it mentions only m4 being the hard one, so maybe this one is not the correct reason - https://piefed.social/post/1656479#comment_9667816), but more generally, it is because apple is a closed eco system, and thy absolutely do not publish support guides for their socs. So a big achievement.
I’m sure the audience here don’t need this, but just in case a caution to not get one of these things (M1/M2) in order to run asahi. if you get a handmedown or sumsuch, great, have at it, but don’t buy them 2nd hand however great the deal is - and it’s rarely great; for that kind of money you can get a vastly superior thinkpad/elitebook/latitude that you can upgrade RAM and storage and you can service it with a nail clipper.
those things predominantly have only 8 GB and that RAM is shared with graphics. not only is that not enough for any reasonable activity, that config caused the system to use the SSD’s swap excessively; they routinely have insane TBW numbers. that in turn causes the soldered-on SSD chips to give out, netting you a brick. when you add the butterfly-fragile screens that bust from misplaced specks of dust, that purchase is anything but an investment.
I had a coupla folks in my orbit who tried the thing from the 1st paragraph, all like “watch this!” and within a coupla weeks they were back at their thinkpads and pre-T2 macbooks.
