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Minecraft Running on Asahi Linux with Open Source GPU Drivers

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Re: Minecraft Running on Asahi Linux with Open Source GPU Drivers

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Post by solarkraft »

ah- wrote: post #6

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.

Man, that's so cool. When things became quiet around the GPU work and Alyssa said something along the lines of "we are very far away" I lost hope a bit. That hope is back!

Re: Minecraft Running on Asahi Linux with Open Source GPU Drivers

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Post by simcop2387 »

phkahler wrote: post #5
wkdneidbwf wrote: post #2

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!

And the Apple GPU kernel driver is written in Rust, so it kinda proves that concept as a side effect!

Yea I'm really waiting for the day that we see it get far enough along to push for mainlining it. It'll be a really cool testament to both the work being done by Lina and Alyssa and also the work that was done by the kernel team to even enable Rust to work there in the first place.

Re: Minecraft Running on Asahi Linux with Open Source GPU Drivers

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Post by matheusmoreira »

renewiltord wrote: post #8

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 memo…

Yeah, I have massive respect for those developers. I wonder how they learned to do what they do. Adding Linux support for hardware is some kind of super power.

Re: Minecraft Running on Asahi Linux with Open Source GPU Drivers

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Post by matheusmoreira »

School-Cotton wrote: post #16
tpush wrote: post #13

Already using Asahi Linux on my M1 Air; can't wait until the GPU stuff lands! Extremely impressive work by all involved!

What’s your battery life like compared to macOS?

I'd also like to know. We recently had an interesting thread about Linux power management and efficiency on laptops.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33644165

Re: Minecraft Running on Asahi Linux with Open Source GPU Drivers

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Post by pdpi »

unknownaccount wrote: post #3

At 28 FPS…

Yes, and at a really low resolution. That's okay, it's expected.

Make It Work, Make It Right, Make It Fast. I personally didn't expect Asahi would get this far on steps #1 and #2 nearly as quickly as they have. It's bloody impressive.

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