Why choose librem mini 2 and no the new mac mini 2024?

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ok,first, this comparasion is very stupid, but the persons make this question, the more power is a good justification for a person that like use a light window manager how for example i3/sway

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Purism is working toward a Librem Mini v3 design featuring much more competitive specifications. Stay tuned.

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It also depends on what boot firmware you want to use and what operating system (distro) you want to use and what support you are prepared to do yourself.

To be honest, with Apple being so proprietary, I would wonder whether some of the ancillary ‘chips’ (e.g. 16 core neural engine) even work with Linux - never mind about what those chips might actually be doing behind your back. (Looks like someone may have reverse engineered a Linux driver for the ANE but YMMV and that’s a bit of a mug’s game anyway.)

Have you found any review of someone successfully running any distro of Linux on a Mac Mini 2024, and what hardware components work and what hardware components do not work? It would be my guess that whatever doesn’t work, you won’t get support or information from Apple.

It’s good to see Apple taking the fight to Intel regarding CPU etc. performance. Just a pity that Apple is even worse than Intel regarding helping Linux and freedom.

A quick search brought up the following rather old topic for an earlier version of the Mac Mini: How I installed PureOS on my Mac Mini (2012)

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You may want to read about Asahi Linux:

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With same price?

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I spoken

Was a stupid question too because i asked in pureOS forum

But actually, i have this doubt

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PureOS with linux li re hardware for mac?

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Pricing is yet to be determined.

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At the momment, in this year, is it better wait for buy a v3 version?

Or only in 2025?

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Wait to make an informed decision, regardless of release date.

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Ok, i thinked that librem mini 2 was recente

But if is better wait

I would like that their prices with v3 had less cost or the same with 16gb how base

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The Librem Mini v2 was announced on November 2nd, 2020:

To put that into perspective, it has been nearly four years since then.

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Ok, it is better wait the third version

With core ultra intel 14th or 13th?

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The reality is that you are unlikely to get information from Purism about a future product. Not CPU. Not release date. Definitely not release date. Not other specifications. Purism has been burned enough not to go down that road.

Whether it is better to wait depends on your requirements and your scenario.

You would be waiting either way.

Waiting for the Librem Mini v3.

Or waiting for anyone to get any Linux working on the Mac Mini 2024.

NB: Apple web site says that the “Mac Mini” has an M4 chip (or an M4 Pro chip). I can only assume that that applies to the “Mac Mini 2024”.

Whereas your previous link says that it supports the “M1” and “M2” chips.

That isn’t a guarantee that it won’t work. It could after all just be that noone has bothered to update the web site. Or it could be that they are still scrambling around trying to cover some important differences between “M2” and “M4” / reverse engineer interfaces etc. etc. etc.

So, at a minimum, the OP would need to make enquiries of Asahi Linux as to what the status of “M4 [Pro]” support actually is - even assuming that the OP is happy to run Asahi Linux rather than some other distro.

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Thanks and sorry

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The answer is easy, perhaps simple: if you’re in the market for a small Mac running MacOS and other software available for the Mac then don’t consider the Librem Mini.

If you’re in the market for a small Linux pc, there are hundreds of options including the Librem Mini. The Mac Mini M4 is not one of them. There are limitations to how well Linux works on the M1 and M2 Macs and no timeline on M3/4 support.

I wouldn’t recommend buying the newest Mac Mini with the intention of running Linux. That’s just a possible/very likely future option.

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Ah yeah that’s a confusing one. Asahi Linux is a project to make it easy to run Linux distributions on Apple Silicon.

The available distributions are

  • Fedora Asahi Remix (the official Asahi distribution)
  • Ubuntu Asahi
  • Arch Linux ARM (the previous official Asahi distribution, not currently recommended due to various issues)

There might be more but I’m not aware of them.

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Lol.
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