The Asahi NixOS Experience

In August of 2023, I was looking around for a new laptop. At the time, I was running an Alienware laptop with an RTX 3070 in it. However, it is a cumbersome machine with horrible battery life. The great thing was its performance. I needed a machine which was powerful, can run Linux, has great battery life, and portable. I wrote off x86 as S0 sleep mode (Windows Modern Standby) became pervasive,…