Lately I have been studying how Asahi Linux and Debian-Asahi Linux work and how it is installed bare metal onto Apple Silicon Macs. It has been shown that the current installer images which are provided on this site produce a working Linux Mint Debian Edition in virtual machines like Parallels and UTM on Apple Silicon. The next logical step would be to produce a script and their underlying images to install a working LMDE onto Apple Silicon M1/M2 hardware bare metal the ‘Asahi way’ from within MacOS. The coming time I need your support to make this feasible as I don’t have the extra hardware to test this on. Needed is a cheap Apple M1 Mini for testing installations of Linux Mint Debian Edition bare metal. I would kindly ask your financial support to buy such a machine. The cheapest here in Thailand go for around 10,000 Thai Baht.
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There is a proof of concept image of LMDE 7 Gigi now which can be flashed onto the internal drive of an Apple Silicon M1/M2 machine using the asahi installer script. It is very similar to here:
https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Apple/M1#Installing_the_Bananas_port_using_the_Asahi_installer