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Wow what a neat project, I have spent a lot of time recently working around vulkan on m1 machines with compatibility layers and while it’s not a huge pain it does suck to miss out on some of the more powerful features of vulkan that the hardware is certainly capable of. I’m not keen on learning metal to bridge the gap and this is just what the doctor ordered.
This will be a huge boon for me, way to go!
Those people are legendary. A bunch of nerds singlehandedly defeating a multi-billions dollars business. I have an M1 for work, if they can manage for Asahi Linux to take advantage of the GPU, I will do 90% of my work on Linux.
if they can manage for Asahi Linux to take advantage of the GPU
Umm, it already does for quite a while now (at least for regular usage). The work they’re currently doing will enable people to play games and other GPU-intensive work.
other GPU-intensive work.
That’s what I meant. I’ve tried a bit of video editing in DaVinci Studio and the performance was far from what I get on macOS.
Oh boy, Davinci? Don’t hold your breath, it’s super picky even with the more mature GPU drivers.
Hard to imagine a Linux user would want to run anything on hardware that costs a fortune and is also completely and intentionally unupgradeable and irreparable…
Much less that they would go to such great lengths to bring such software into existence.
Sadly, Apple is doing ARM CPUs for desktop/laptop PC incredibly well, and at a cheaper price than just about any competitor.
Before the Macbook Pro M1 I would’ve hard agreed with you, but this sentiment no longer goes with the current ARM PC’s that they’re selling.
Well, you’re entitled to your wrong opinions 🙂
Easy to imagine when you understand that this is developed to support hardware that is widely popular and that will be sold by a lot less in the second-hand market in a couple of years, and that this makes far easier for people that are currently stuck in this walled garden to experiment with free software.
Apple devices tend to also have wild resale values.
Meh, if just wanting a lightweight laptop that’s fast even when unplugged there’s people who would be OK paying $700 for a M1 MBAir or a bit more for a 16GB version. They’re great laptops, the Rust compiler is very fast on M1/2 and with no fan noise. If buying Apple Refurbished they’re like new.
Nah, a ton of Linux fans seem to shill hard for Apple for some reason.
