Minecraft Running on Asahi Linux with Open Source GPU Drivers

this whole project has been amazing to watch develop. not only is this technically impressive, it seemed like it happened _so fast_. really talented people!

It's a start - remember this developer has basically bootstrapped linux on Apple's custom hardware and this is the early stages of the latest area she's focussed on (getting the GPU working). This has been an impressive project, it'll no doubt continue.

It doesn't just run Minecraft, it now runs a smooth gpu accelerated GNOME desktop including things like Youtube videos: https://cdn.masto.host/sigmoidsocial/media_attachments/files...

This doesn't yet work out of the box but the next few months will be very exciting.

These open-source GPU driver guys are sick! About two decades ago, I had a Via Unichrome integrated GPU and the OpenChrome project had me able to run games on Linux. It was sick. I played Unreal Tournament (which had a Linux version that worked better for me than on Windows), and I think at one point my introduction to open source was having to modify another game's source code so that it would allocate less GPU memory for a texture (the texture then kind of smeared over the rest of the screen, but it was for a UI element so the game was still playable).

Love to see there are people still doing that stuff today, especially since this stuff is probably more complex than then.

Better than no GPU driver and needing to spin the CPU for that work.