System requirements and per-platform hardware status. For which image fits your hardware (HWE kernels, NVIDIA, ARM), see the User Guide and the tag reference in IMAGE-TAGS.md.
| Component | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | x86_64, ARM64 | x86_64, ARM64 |
| RAM | 4 GB | 8 GB+ |
| Storage | 20 GB | 50 GB+ |
| Hardware | Status | Docs |
|---|---|---|
| Snapdragon X Elite (e.g. Lenovo ThinkPad X13s) | Supported via Bonito (ARM64) | Snapdragon X Elite FAQ; the dedicated bonito-x13s / dakota-x13s pages are archived |
| Apple Silicon (M1, M2) | In progress via Asahi Linux — see note below | bootc-installer-asahi |
| Apple Silicon (M3 and newer) | Not supported (no Asahi support for M3+ yet) | — |
Apple Silicon status. ROADMAP.md is the canonical source. It lists Apple Silicon support as 🟡 in progress (#781), so this row says the same thing instead of a flat "Supported". Today the
-asahiimages build and CI gates them (Bonito & Grouper, 36/36 verified, #776), and the installer track has D0–D2 and D4 done. Not yet in place: the macOS installer app (D3), any tagged release ofbootc-installer-asahi, and any validation on real Apple hardware. That repo's deepest test is qemu + U-Boot, which it describes as "the deepest fidelity achievable without Apple hardware". You install by hand on the Asahi installer path, and if you have M1/M2 hardware to test on, #781 is the place to help.
| Hardware | Status | Image |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Mac with the Apple T2 security chip (2018-2020 MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac, Mac mini) | Builds and boots; not yet validated on real T2 hardware | bonito:gnome-t2 (x86_64) |
The T2 overlay swaps Fedora's kernel for the T2 Linux
project's COPR build, which carries the bridge, keyboard, trackpad and audio
patches those machines need. build_scripts/overlay/t2.sh asserts the result: a kernel without the
.t2. dist tag fails the build, and no such image ships.
What that status means, precisely. The flavor builds, passes the desktop contract, boots in the CI gate and publishes, first measured in run 34768771243 on 2026-09-13. Nobody has run it on a T2 Mac. The gate boots the image under QEMU, which exercises the kernel and the desktop, and says nothing at all about Apple's bridge hardware.
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth need firmware this image cannot carry. Apple does not
let anyone redistribute the Broadcom firmware, so it is absent on purpose.
The installer extracts it from the machine's own macOS partition and transfers
it during installation. An image booted without that step has no Wi-Fi. The
overlay ships iwd and points NetworkManager at it. That is the backend recommended by
the T2 Linux project for these chips.
If you have a T2 Mac to test on, that is the missing evidence.