ubuntu-asahi
Native Ubuntu installations for Apple silicon hardware (by UbuntuAsahi)
evdi
Extensible Virtual Display Interface (by DisplayLink)
| ubuntu-asahi | evdi | |
|---|---|---|
| 18 | 45 | |
| 605 | 682 | |
| 7.9% | 1.3% | |
| 7.5 | 8.1 | |
| about 1 month ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Shell | C | |
| - | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
ubuntu-asahi
Posts with mentions or reviews of ubuntu-asahi.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-27.
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Using baremetal Asahi Linux (Ubuntu) on M1 Mac Minis for homelab
I used an Asahi Linux distro (Ubuntu Server 22.04LTS) - https://github.com/UbuntuAsahi/ubuntu-asahi as Ubuntu is a supported distro and KVM host in Apache #CloudStack. I want to explore if this can be used as a viable KVM/virtualisation host. After initial install, I had to manually setup openssh and bridge-utils on it. Initial impressions - I was amazed, I knew the new Apple silicon chips are fast (tried on Mac OS) but on Linux on them is really "really" fast while consuming only 5-6W idle and about 20W for full "server" workloads (CPU) and it was very quiet and cool.
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Displaylink and Ubuntu on M1
I got displaylink dock working with a MacBook M1 on Ubuntu 22.10. Finally 3 screens, we can start consider it as a working station. Thanks to the Asahi Devs and Ubuntu-asahi scripts.
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Question - Installing Ubuntu natively on Apple M1 macbooks
You can install Ubuntu natively via this link: https://github.com/tobhe/ubuntu-asahi
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Confused about Asahi Linux Minimal -- ubuntu?
No, the minimal option is Arch Linux without a desktop environment (GUI). Asahi aims to put Linux in general (maybe Ubuntu one day) on the Apple silicon Macs. While there is way to install Ubuntu, it's not supported by the Asahi team. Here it is: https://github.com/tobhe/ubuntu-asahi
- Booting Ubuntu from a USB drive on a Macbook pro M2
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Installing Kubuntu on Asahi?
On the Alternative Distros wiki page there's a link to a project that let's you install Ubuntu on Asahi Linux. However, I perfer KDE over GNOME, so is there a way to install Kubuntu instead of plain Ubuntu?
- Gnome Wayland is amazing <3
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Ubuntu 22.10 running on M1 MacBook Air (bare metal)
Never really seen anybody on the internet write a guide to install Ubuntu on apple silicon based macs, so I’ve decided to come out the public and publish a guide on how to install Ubuntu on apple silicon based macs. First and foremost, go to this GitHub page: https://github.com/tobhe/ubuntu-asahi and run these scripts in the macOS terminal: curl -sL https://tobhe.de/ubuntu/install > install.sh # Download less install.sh # Review sh install.sh # Run
- Help! I want to boot a portable Ubuntu USB on my Macbook Air M2
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Why did they choose arch Linux?
https://github.com/tobhe/ubuntu-asahi is working quite well for me on an M1 Air.
evdi
Posts with mentions or reviews of evdi.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-17.
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Usb monitor not showing up in display options despite being visible in usb settings?
git clone https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi.git
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Displaylink and Ubuntu on M1
So I'm currently on Ubuntu 22.10 with Mesa and asahi-edge kernel. You need both to allow using primary GPU as source output. I'm using evdi 1.13.1 with the correction to set the module to the 1.12.0 to run the script displaylink from Synaptics for Ubuntu.
- Hdmi output on macbook m1 with asahi linux
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Help needed: Can't install DisplayLink Drivers for my dock. Fedora 37 Kernal 6.2 Evdi 1.12.0, RPM Release isn't working
The RPM version never worked for me. It's only useful for getting the services installed. After that clone the repo from https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi and change to the devel branch. Run make and sudo make install. If you use SecureBoot you also need to sign the resulting evdi.ko with your key. After that restart displaylink.service or reboot and it should work. At least it did for me. I's been a while since I had to use it.
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Display link POP OS 22.04 kernel
Uninstallation steps complete. darren@pop-os:~/displaylinkfix$ ./displaylink-driver-5.6.1-59.184.run --noexec --keep Creating directory displaylink-driver-5.6.1-59.184 Verifying archive integrity... 100% MD5 checksums are OK. All good. Uncompressing DisplayLink Linux Driver 5.6.1-59.184 100% darren@pop-os:~/displaylinkfix$ cd ./displaylink-driver-5.6.1-59.184 darren@pop-os:~/displaylinkfix/displaylink-driver-5.6.1-59.184$ curl -L https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi/archive/refs/heads/devel.tar.gz -o evdi.tar.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 100 80603 0 80603 0 0 179k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 179k darren@pop-os:~/displaylinkfix/displaylink-driver-5.6.1-59.184$ nano darren@pop-os:~/displaylinkfix/displaylink-driver-5.6.1-59.184$ nano evdi.tar.gz darren@pop-os:~/displaylinkfix/displaylink-driver-5.6.1-59.184$
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Multimonitor Issue - Hardware or Driver?
I'm afraid this might be a hardware issue, maybe with the cable. I don't have a second cable to swap out unfortunately. A new one won't be here until Saturday. And it seems like a hell of a coincidence for the cable to fail when there's other issues reported within the last few days that seem very similar.
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Exit code 1 when trying to install stock kernal after in place upgrade to bookworm. (been self compiling 5.15.x in bullseye)
https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi states
- Latest update broke displaylink
- How to revert to kernel 6.0.12
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External Monitors attached trough a Docking Stations staying black
Theres a bug in the 6.2 kernel right now with at least the evdi package (dont know about evdi-git) but can be fixed with a patch. Pr for it is already open but yet to be merged https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi/pull/401
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ubuntu-asahi and evdi you can also consider the following projects:
libvirt
displaylink-rpm - RPM sources for the DisplayLink USB display adapters
pop-arm64 - Experimental scripts for building an Pop!_OS for ARM64 EFI platforms.
BetterDummy - Unlock your displays on your Mac! Smooth scaling, HiDPI unlock, XDR/HDR extra brightness upscale, DDC, brightness and dimming, dummy displays, PIP and lots more! [Moved to: https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay]
macos-multipass-docker - Step by step guide for installing Docker under macOS via Canonical's Multipass.
deskreen - Deskreen turns any device with a web browser into a secondary screen for your computer. ⭐️ Star to support our work!
nixos-apple-silicon - Resources to install NixOS bare metal on Apple Silicon Macs
pop - A project for managing all Pop!_OS sources
cacao - Rust bindings for AppKit (macOS) and UIKit (iOS/tvOS). Experimental, but working!
evdipp - Simple C++ wrapper for DisplayLink evdi. Add and manage virtual displays in Linux! Get dummy monitors without attaching physical dongles!
synergy-core - Open source core of Synergy, the cross-platform keyboard and mouse sharing tool (Windows, macOS, Linux)
senile - Collecting todo statements from code because we usually either ignore or forget about them.