{"id":284313,"date":"2026-06-30T23:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/a-new-linux-driver-gets-us-one-step-closer-to-daily-driving-the-os-on-an-m3-macbook\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T01:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T05:35:06","slug":"a-new-linux-driver-gets-us-one-step-closer-to-daily-driving-the-os-on-an-m3-macbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/a-new-linux-driver-gets-us-one-step-closer-to-daily-driving-the-os-on-an-m3-macbook\/","title":{"rendered":"A new Linux driver gets us one step closer to daily driving the OS on an M3 MacBook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/a-new-linux-driver-gets-us-one-step-closer-to-daily-driving-the-os-on-an-m3-macbook\/\">A new Linux driver gets us one step closer to daily driving the OS on an M3 MacBook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/a-new-linux-driver-gets-us-one-step-closer-to-daily-driving-the-os-on-an-m3-macbook\/\">https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/a-new-linux-driver-gets-us-one-step-closer-to-daily-driving-the-os-on-an-m3-macbook\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-30 23:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.xda-developers.com\">www.xda-developers.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title icon i-list\">Summary<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n                                        Linux boots on M3 MacBooks with Linux 7.2, but the built-in input devices were previously unusable.\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        New 10-patch series adds apple-dockchannel mailbox, DockChannel HID transport, and rtkit\/hid-apple tweaks for keyboards.\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        Trackpad remains unsupported now, but the Linux community is actively working to enable full input support soon.\n                        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Apple M3 MacBook has been pretty stubborn when it comes to accepting Linux on its hardware. The community has only just <span style=\"box-sizing:border-box; margin:0px; padding:0px\">managed to boot Linux off an M3 MacBook thanks to<\/span>the Linux 7.2 kernel. However, that&#8217;s currently as far as you can feasibly get, as the input hardware does not support Linux at all.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the Linux community refuses to surrender. Instead, it&#8217;s choosing to fight the good fight, finding ways to convert the M3 MacBook into a Linux daily driver. A new driver has finally given people the power to use the built-in hardware on Linux, and it&#8217;s only a matter of time until people can comfortably use the FOSS operating system on their Apple hardware.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"linux-gets-new-patches-for-the-m3-macbook-39-s-keyboard\">\n                        Linux gets new patches for the M3 MacBook&#8217;s keyboard<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"the-trackpad-is-next-on-the-docket\">\n            The trackpad is next on the docket<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>  &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/a-new-linux-driver-gets-us-one-step-closer-to-daily-driving-the-os-on-an-m3-macbook\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Linux driver gets us one step closer to daily driving the OS on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":284314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.xdaimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/macbook-air-m3-xda-xda-review01892.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-284313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284315,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284313\/revisions\/284315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}