Asahi Linux now officially supports Macs with the M3 series SoC

7 Sep 2026 at 8:17 am UTC
By Liam Squires-Hand

Asahi Linux is a project and community with the goal of porting Linux to Apple Silicon Macs - and now it supports Macs with the M3 series SoC. This was announced in a new blog post on the official website noting that the installer has been upgraded to bring support for the newer chips!

From the blog post:

"Linux support for M3 series SoCs and the machines powered by them is now in a state where almost everything supported on the M1 and M2 series machines just works. This includes the webcam, internal microphones, USB (up to the hardware limit of USB 3 10 Gb/s), hardware accelerated video decoding including support for AV1, WiFi, Bluetooth, and much more! The only major exceptions remain full DCP support and the GPU, which we will have more news on in the coming months. Do not expect performant or power-efficient 3D acceleration right now."

Some limitations clearly noted in the post too:

• Sleep currently does not work due to limitations with the firmware-provided framebuffer. This will be addressed once full DCP support is wired up for M3.
• Similarly, the lack of DCP support means that the HDMI port on equipped MacBooks is currently disabled.
• Although MacBooks and iMacs are supported (M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max), the Mac Studio (M3 Ultra) is not yet supported.

Fantastic to see the progress on this though, especially for keeping Macs alive with proper open source. Making Apple's hardware much more open for everyone.

I do always like Mac hardware - just not the operating system. Projects like this are especially useful for keeping older Macs alive when Apple eventually drops support.

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