abiosoft's Posts

I guess I probably didn't choose the right words and I agree with your experience with Ubuntu. I have a use-case for audio (including mic) and graphics acceleration in a Linux VM and none of the distros have been as supported on Fusion as I'd like. The older kernel supports audio while the newer (6.x) kernel support graphics. The pipewire audio fix works in the new kernel for some (like Debian and Fedora) but there's still some lag in the audio. The HWE kernel 6.2. for Ubuntu 22.04 is the first time I got audio (without input lag) and graphics to work properly, hence my statement. It was mainly for my use-case. I totally agree that Ubuntu has been treating arm64/aarch64 as an afterthought. It is still required to manually convert a server image to desktop image to reliably boot Ubuntu on Fusion. A distro I am yet to try is OpenSUSE, I will give it a shot. Thanks.

With the release of Linux kernel 6.2 support for Ubuntu 22.04, it appears to now be the best all round supported distro for Fusion on Apple Silicon devices. The audio works fine and the Linux kernel 6.2 brings graphics/GPU support. The kernel 6.2 can be installed with sudo apt install linux-image-generic-hwe-22.04.

I am having exact issues as well. I have tried multiple distros including Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian and NixOS and the behaviour is same. Basically, the sound stutters in the beginning for about 5-30 seconds and eventually starts playing normally. If you pause an audio/video for over 10 seconds and you play again, you get same behaviour. The mic behaves same way and it becomes pretty much useless. I do however notice that the audio works fine in some distros with older kernels (like Ubuntu 22.04). However, GPU acceleration is missing in those distros. Considering that USB cameras work fine, I suspect that USB headset/speakers/mic might work. It has been a blocker for me and I hope there are some workarounds.