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Re: ARM64 Linux Workstation

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Post by psanford »

psanford wrote: post #165
cpmsmith wrote: post #157

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You're likely missing the Widevine DRM plugin. IIRC, many distros don't include it, or don't enable it by default.

Where is the publicly available linux/aarch64 build of widevine drm? The fetch-latest-widevine.sh[0] script says 'Architecture not supported'. [0]: https://github.com/proprietary/chromium-widevine/blob/master...

Well, to answer this question if someone comes looking: there's no official aarch64 widevine release, but chromeos just started shipping a 64bit arm version of widevine in the last month. But that version is incompatible with the 16k page size kernel that asahi ships with. There was a report in the asahi irc channel that a manually patched libwidevinecdm.so works.

Re: ARM64 Linux Workstation

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Post by mgkimsal »

ActorNightly wrote: post #460
mgkimsal wrote: post #225

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I’ve grown to hate using a mouse, and love the MacBook trackpad. Having your hands so close to both keyboard and trackpad means less travel time between.

True, but in terms of development, the main use of mouse is really selecting text for copy and paste (unless you are hardcore vim user), and scrolling. Id be impressed if the speed at which you can select text accurately is higher on the trackpad than a mouse. I have seen lots of developers at work on their macbooks do the standard select text->copy->paste, and everyone is way slower at this then people who use mouse…

Not a gamer - haven't 'gamed' since pitfall - so no experience with mouse vs trackpad in that respect.

What seems missing from all this is the notion of gestures. The two finger scroll, single finger pointer move, pinch/zoom, etc - the trackpad is flexible in ways a trackpoint thing just can't be.

"I have seen lots of developers at work on their macbooks do the standard select text->copy->paste, and everyone is way slower at this then people who use mouse."

Not really sure what you're getting at. Selecting with a... trackpoint can be faster than using a mouse? Maybe, for some people. I'm constantly surprised by mouse-using/GUI people who always do so much more with a mouse than you need to. But I'm not sure that takes away any argument from the mac trackpad.

Re: ARM64 Linux Workstation

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Post by peoplearepeople »

coldtea wrote: post #208
peoplearepeople wrote: post #159

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> Want to use FUSE? Fuse is infuriating on MacOS - why is it not included by default??

Because it's a random third party filesystem adaptor module. Why would it be "included by default"?

Because it's necessary for a load of use-cases, and installing a *kernel* extension for it is terrible for deployment

Re: ARM64 Linux Workstation

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Post by peoplearepeople »

coldtea wrote: post #410
AnthonyMouse wrote: post #284

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Most of the Unix utilities that are included were written by third parties. They're "included by default" because they're useful and take up a negligible amount of space.

They're included by default because they are standard UNIX userland. FUSE is nowhere near that.

A machine without FUSE is a toy

Re: ARM64 Linux Workstation

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Post by vietvu »

apatheticonion wrote: post #152

I cannot wait for Linux to be fully usable on my Apple Silicon MBP. That is going to be such a killer environment to develop on. Crazy fast hardware, great high refresh screen, insane battery life, fantastic touchpad, gestures and keyboard. There is the potential that Windows games could run on it with some combination of x86 translation and Proton. Using MacOS on it feels like I have a ferrari with square wheels. Wa…

Agree on MacOS, it feels like I am being held hostage by Apple when using it. The OS was advertised as developer centric but every single aspect for develop is terrible.

Re: ARM64 Linux Workstation

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Post by steakscience »

bornfreddy wrote: post #306

A bit off-topic: does anyone know what the best new laptop, available in EU, would be for Linux (exclusively)? Preferably something with a keyboard similar to the old ThinkPads (T480)?

Framework laptops also have the repairability and very good Linux support.

Re: ARM64 Linux Workstation

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Post by paines »

paines wrote: post #440
paines wrote: post #369

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thank you for that report. This convinced me to install it now.

Actually it works quite nicely on a M1 14''. Even battery life is quite good. Compared to my Dell XPS 15 7590 it has twice the battery life, easily if not even more. One thing which bothers me a lot as it makes the laptop hardly useable for me at night: display brightness cannot be adjusted, it is either off or 100%. Some user claim this can be accomplished by installing the asahi-edge kernel, which does not even boo…

Okay, one step further, and one step back: installing the asahi-edge kernel requires the mesa-asahi-egde package otherwise you won't see a thing. This isn't been done automatically. Now brightness works which is fine, but working e.g. with raylib which will create a GLX context fails now with mesa-edge...

Re: ARM64 Linux Workstation

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Post by sixothree »

Mike_12345 wrote: post #110
sixothree wrote: post #39

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And yet open source community embraces the hardware with fervor.

Vast majority of hardware used by the open source community is proprietary and undocumented, and always has been. They embrace the challenge of reverse-engineering.

I don't understand the draw to something so hostile to the core values of Linux.

Re: ARM64 Linux Workstation

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Post by Mike_12345 »

sixothree wrote: post #479
Mike_12345 wrote: post #110

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Vast majority of hardware used by the open source community is proprietary and undocumented, and always has been. They embrace the challenge of reverse-engineering.

I don't understand the draw to something so hostile to the core values of Linux.

GNU / Linux and BSD would never have started with that attitude. Most hardware was proprietary back in the day, and still is proprietary today. Even Thinkpads (a favourite among BSD devs) have proprietary subsystems that are reverse engineered. The alternative would have been to sulk and whine about it and do nothing. The hardware vendors truly do not give a f**k. They are run by business people, not open source idealists.
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