macbook air 2022 m2 -will it work?
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i am deciding between a few used laptops to buy, and it has to be light and not plastic. i was considering
asus zenbooks: q408ug and others
macbook air 2022 m2
gpd pocket 3 (the one with the pentium silver n6000
apple hardware seems too last a lot longer than anything else, but i'm not that familiar with gpd and it might be really nice. however i emailed the guy and h hasn't responded, so i might contact the guy about the mac, iffffffffff it will work with trisquel?
wifi: out of the box? if not, is there and internal chip i can replace the (broadcom?) with?
booting from usb: will it work? what format/options?
thank you ethicals!
patrick
The people working on Asahi GNU/Linux have experimental support for some M1 Macs. Perhaps you've heard of this. But there's nothing for the M2 or M3 or M4. Apple isn't really compatible with freedom. Recommend to avoid. The only support you'll have will exist despite Apple, not because of. If you're in the market for durable hardware, older ThinkPads are a fantastic choice. They're renowned for their ruggedness and longevity. While I’ve heard that the build quality of newer models may have declined since Lenovo took over, I can't personally confirm this. But the older ThinkPads are built like tanks.
Asahi are actually making good progress: https://asahilinux.org/fedora/#device-support. M2 chips are supported now. Although I have no experience with installing it - it appears to be based on Fedora, not Trisquel. Running Trisquel may be possible using the work from Asahi, but I think one would really need to know what they're doing to attempt it.
thanks **bernie**! this was what i was looking for.
however i had a chance to by the gpd p2max 2022, with the pentium n6000 processor, and went for that. more below.
thanks, i went with to gpd p2max. it's unibody cnc milled and no plastic housing.
more info below. i always appreciate your hard work and i see you in the # on irc.
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I had success installing Trisquel on 2 Apple computers with an Intel processor (so not the M series, see explanations from jxself), see https://trisquel.info/fr/forum/successful-trisquel-install-macbookpro-132
I am not aware of any way to replace the wifi chip, I use a USB wifi adapter when needed.
I recommend you sell that hardware and buy one compatible with free software https://ryf.fsf.org/
Unfortunately, there are many vendors and products on that site that are outdated. I don't think a 3D printer is what they are looking for. The last option seems to be the Talos II, but it is expensive.
Maybe we can look to the future like the MNT Reform Next that can be ordered from crowdsupply and hopefully they ship in September. That one has a modules that are non-free like the Wi-fi, I think, but it can be removed.
> That one has a modules that are non-free like the Wi-fi, I think, but it can be removed.
As things stand, it looks like you would also need to do either without booting or without display. What is truly unfortunate is to have spent so much efforts to provide fully serviceable hardware, only to give up now on the software side.
"We had to reinvent ourselves to be more useful for more people. The lesson here is: pick your battle. These were, in a sense, ivory tower projects. Philosophical purity will be appreciated by only very few people, even if these people tend to be quite vocal on the internet. I am thankful that there are critical people who are fighting to make sure that every last bit is open source [sic] but in the end most computer users are pragmatic and are willing to make small trade-offs if it means they can have a more comfortable time. [...] But let's get to more fun topics."
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I saw that MNT "picked their battles" as they say, which is, it is fine to have things that need non-free software for boot, for the GPU and wifi and perhaps more, as long as the PCB is open source hardware and batteries can be replaced.
I see a lot more value in a rockpro64, that can make a pretty decent computer and can work entirely with free software, and I don't care that the PCB is not open-source hardware, as this has no impact to computing.
To me, the PCB looks like one of the least important piece when it comes to controlling your computing and I feel the value of it being "open-source hardware" as much as the value of having a healthy cherry on an unhealthy cake.
this is the best way except i have ethical issues with commerce including shipping, plastics etc. so i always go with a private person-to-person sale.
but i appreciate it.
also i don't understand,, i hadn't bought anything yet when i wrote this. anyways now i went with the gpd p2max. more below if you care to read.
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The safest would be if you can see the hardware before buying and try booting on a Trisquel live USB. Except for wifi, anything with an Intel CPU and no separate video card is likely to work fine, provided it is allowing to boot any system.
i am trying again now to post this main update. i hope it works!:
thanks to everyone so much, you are all awesome, i care deeply about free software and have been wifi-only-non-compliant with that true behavior since about 2012 i think. so i bought the
gpd p2max 2022 - intel n6000 pentium silver processor
i got it used. i do not buy from retailers generally, and especially where computers are concerned. this is from various spiritual-ethical concerns. god bless you all in yeshua. also, any used items out there that someone bought from techno-ethical etc. are honking boulders of weight *to me*. i travel and backpack quite a bit to get into nature and i want to take my computing with me. therefore 4 lbs. of weight is a ridiculous amount *for me*.
>but with a dongle lots of computers are free-software-compliant, right? i mean as long as the hardware that isn't initiatable without libre software isn't used, doesn't that mean i am full free and am not hurting others?<
so i bought the ultra-mobile and (i think?) powerful p2max 2022, and hmm, after downloading trisquel mini, it boots (i used usb) but it has 3 issues. could you help a guy?
1. display is in quadruplicate on the screen, and it has a lot of unused space on the righthand side, and has vertical line artifacts over virtually the whole screen.
2. the sound doesn't seem to work. in mixer, i could make out some "hda" or something when hitting F6 or whatever to select sound card, iirc.
3. the wifi of course doesn't work, being intel ax201 wifi 6. i have a chance to get an asus usb-n13. it's not listed on h-node. should i get it?
fyi, everything works in ubuntu, which is what he had on it when he sold it to me. here is lspci in ubuntu:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 4e26
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation JasperLake [UHD Graphics] (rev 01)
00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Dynamic Tuning service
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 4e11
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Jasper Lake USB 3.1 xHCI Host Controller (rev 01)
00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Jasper Lake Shared SRAM (rev 01)
00:14.3 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX201 160MHz (rev 01)
00:15.0 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Jasper Lake Serial IO I2C Host Controller #0 (rev 01)
00:15.1 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Jasper Lake Serial IO I2C Host Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:15.2 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Jasper Lake Serial IO I2C Host Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:15.3 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Jasper Lake Serial IO I2C Host Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Management Engine Interface (rev 01)
00:19.0 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Jasper Lake Serial IO I2C Host Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1a.0 SD Host controller: Intel Corporation Jasper Lake eMMC Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Jasper Lake PCIe Root Port #5 (rev 01)
00:1e.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Jasper Lake Serial IO UART Controller #0 (rev 01)
00:1e.3 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Jasper Lake Serial IO SPI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Jasper Lake eSPI Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation Jasper Lake HD Audio (rev 01)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Jasper Lake SMBus (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Jasper Lake SPI Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Biwin Storage Technology Co., Ltd. HP EX900 NVMe SSD (DRAM-less) (rev 03)
thank thank thank you for your help.
i am creating a new thread for installing trisquel.