SW:Alternative Distros

Several members of the community have contributed guides and pre-built artifacts in order to use other distros on Apple Silicon Macs. These efforts are listed here. Please remember that these are user-contributed, and the Asahi Linux project cannot provide support or any guarantee of compatibility, functionality, or safety.

Distro	Maintainer	Installation Guide
Alpine Linux	IRC: mps (https://arvanta.net/alpine)	https://arvanta.net/alpine/install-alpine-m1/
CentOS Stream	https://github.com/ericcurtin	https://github.com/ericcurtin/asahi-centosstream-builder
Debian	https://thomas.glanzmann.de/	https://git.zerfleddert.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/m1-debian/
Deepin	https://github.com/deepin-community	https://github.com/deepin-community/deepin-m1
Deepin	deepin M1 SIG	https://www.deepin.org/index/docs/sig/sig/deepin-m1/README
Fedora	https://github.com/leifliddy	https://github.com/leifliddy/asahi-fedora-builder
Fedora	Fedora Asahi SIG	https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Asahi
Gentoo (LiveCD method)	IRC: chadmed (https://github.com/chadmed)	Installing Gentoo with LiveCD
NixOS	IRC: tpw_rules (https://github.com/tpwrules)	https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-m1/blob/main/docs/uefi-standalone.md
Pop!_OS	IRC: Lucy (https://github.com/Absolucy)	https://github.com/pop-os/asahi-pop
Rocky Linux	https://github.com/leifliddy	https://github.com/leifliddy/asahi-rocky-builder
Ubuntu	https://github.com/tobhe	https://github.com/tobhe/ubuntu-asahi