Asahi Debian

What is this about ?

This project brings Debian to Apple silicon hardware which is primarily possible thanks to the honorable work of the Asahi Linux community.

For more information on the Asahi Linux project: https://asahilinux.org/

How to install Asahi Debian ?

It is as easy as simply opening a terminal on your Apple Silicon device and pasting the command below.

curl -sL https://files.christiangoeschel.com/asahi-debian/installer | sh

Follow the installer instructions and select your preferred partitioning setup when presented with something similar to this:

1. Debian 12 Bookworm Minimal Install 
2. Debian 12 Bookworm Minimal Install (LUKS)
3. Debian 12 Bookworm + KDE Plasma 
4. Debian 12 Bookworm + KDE Plasma (LUKS)

When the procedure terminates successfully, shutdown your device and turn it back on after 25 seconds to then complete stage 2 of the installation process.

If everything went well you should be able to reboot to your freshly installed Asahi Debian OS and enjoy all it's advantages.

What to do after the installation ?

The installer image is build in a way so that little user intervention is needed for the initial setup.

If you selected the LUKS enabled installer image please note that the initial encryption key is asahi-debian. You can change the key with the myluks tool in the terminal.

A priviliged user called asahi will be available after boot with the password asahi-debian.

Once you login please run the tool first-boot in your terminal, it'll setup the system for seamless performance and finalize the installation.

Live USB

This will be made available soon.

Contribute

If you wish to contribute, for now please consider opening pull requests or issues.

Optionally, you can message me at cgoesc2@wgu.edu