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Re: Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1

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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33019853 and redacted a personal name. Please don't.

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I don't know anything about any of this, but I know that your comments stand out as being driven by some sort of strange pre-existing agenda, which is no doubt partly why users flagged them and pushed back against them so vociferously. Would you please stop posting about this now? It's just adding offtopic drama.

Re: Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1

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This whole linux on Apple M1/M2 thing is the best proof that Linux is always a very good fit fort next gen hardware/software/developers. new hardware, arm based apple silicon here, is now challenging the monopoly of x86. after such a long waiting, we finally have a mature alternative platform to choose from - and it is performance is pretty good. new language, rust here, is getting its way into the linux kernel. this…

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Re: Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1

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This whole linux on Apple M1/M2 thing is the best proof that Linux is always a very good fit fort next gen hardware/software/developers. new hardware, arm based apple silicon here, is now challenging the monopoly of x86. after such a long waiting, we finally have a mature alternative platform to choose from - and it is performance is pretty good. new language, rust here, is getting its way into the linux kernel. this…

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Re: Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1

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The November 2020 M1 machines are nearly getting to daily usability in Linux. Support for screen brightness adjustment, the webcam, speakers and mic are the remaining things for day to day use for me. All look like they should be working in 6 months-1 year. It's a bit of a shame that the RAM is so limited on all those platforms - I can't imagine it being enough to load many electron apps in a few years time.

I use one as a daily driver and run Chrome, Slack, Spotify, and VSCode simultaneously and it’s been fine.

Re: Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1

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"Please temper your expectations: even with hardware documentation, an optimized Vulkan driver stack (with enough features to layer OpenGL 4.6 with Zink) requires many years of full time work. At least for now, nobody is working on this driver full time3. Reverse-engineering slows the process considerably. We won’t be playing AAA games any time soon." From https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-6.html

Yeah, it's because of this statement from an extremely trustworthy source that I'm looking for context here. I suspect most of the big problems haven't been suddenly and magically overcome? E.g. how close are we, given this, to supporting an AAA game, let's say from a few years ago?

Re: Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1

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Based on my own experience, you need to reevaluate your biases.

I’ve had many avatars online, some male, others female, many not human. While it can be for others, my decisions were never about my feelings towards my gender or sexuality.

I say this just to let you know these things are orthogonal. Just as you shouldn’t assume anything about a female child playing Peter Pan in the school production, you shouldn’t assume anything about a person’s gender or sexuality based on their “current” avatar (of possibly many current avatars).

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