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Can I use an Ubuntu bootable USB on a MacBook Air M1?

ve flag

I seem to be not able to boot my MacBook Air from a bootable USB with Ubuntu installed. I had found earlier that there was no support on M1 for Linux-based OS.

Is it still true or has someone found a sort of solution?

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There is currently no functional version of Ubuntu for devices with Apple’s M-series chips. The closest you’ll get is [Asahi Linux](https://asahilinux.org/), but be ready for the compatibility caveats that come with installing a non-Apple OS on Apple hardware.
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cn flag
@matigo, please don't answer in comments.
us flag
The Asahi developers have reverse engineered the M1 GPU recently. https://asahilinux.org/2022/11/tales-of-the-m1-gpu/ Also, Asahi is very easy to install or uninstall. https://asahilinux.org/2022/03/asahi-linux-alpha-release/
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cn flag
[Multipass](https://multipass.run/) and other VM solutions work very well upon M1 hardware.
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ve flag
@user535733 I need to start Macbook from bootable USB. Why do I need a virtual machine?
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vn flag
If you want to ask about any Linux distro running on Apple M1, you should rather ask on [unix.se].
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ke flag
It does now, I have Fedora running on the M1 pro. And here you can manage to boot a Live: https://www.corellium.com/blog/linux-m1
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vn flag

There are currently no official images for the Apple M1 line of hardware.

The supported hardware platforms are listed in the official documentation - unfortunately, this is not updated for 22.04 and 22.10 yet. But here is the list for 20.04.

This is further evident from the CD Image site, which lists the same available images.

If there was an image for Apple M1, you would surely know about this on the Ubuntu.com website, and the image would also be available for download from here.

Until this happens, Apple M1 (and M2) hardware is officially not supported.

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