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Asahi Linux project's OpenGL support on Apple Silicon officially surpasses Apple

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Re: Asahi Linux project's OpenGL support on Apple Silicon officially surpasses Apple

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Post by notyoutube »

btown wrote: post #11

One of the coolest things (IMO) about the entire Asahi effort, and why I'm not at all surprised that they surpassed Apple, was the dedicated effort to build bespoke developer-friendly Python tooling early in the reverse engineering process. https://asahilinux.org/2021/08/progress-report-august-2021/ > Since the hypervisor is built on m1n1, it works together with Python code running on a separate host machine. Effecti…

Mmh, is that a similarity with postmarketos? I have a fuzzy memory that pmbootstrap or some other tool was kind of important to start porting to new devices?

Re: Asahi Linux project's OpenGL support on Apple Silicon officially surpasses Apple

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larrik wrote: post #7

I switched to an M1 Air back at the beginning of 2021, was on Linux (desktop machine) about a decade before that. It's basically purely a work machine (software and management). The hardware is amazing. The battery life is astounding. The software, in almost every area, is inferior to my experience in Linux. The Apple parts generally worst of all (only Microsoft Office on it is worse). In the end, I'm probably 70% as…

My main gripe - how on vanilla MacOS alt(cmd)-tabbing cycles through applications first and then _all their windows_ rather than windows first, doing _nothing_ on a per application basis.

I cannot imagine how this matches at all to anyone's workflow. Nobody at apple works on a single project across multiple applications (documentation in browswr, your IDE, an emulator, some terminals, etc.).?

You have to install a specific app and give it some crazy permissions to fix those issues. Pfft

Re: Asahi Linux project's OpenGL support on Apple Silicon officially surpasses Apple

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Post by r00fus »

echelon_musk wrote: post #4
BirAdam wrote: post #2

Honestly, I have been a bit disappointed by Apple. On one hand, they make some seriously awesome hardware with amazing performance doing tasks like rendering and whatnot. On the other hand, they seem incapable of getting awesome performance in other areas, the hardware is incredibly locked away from the supposed owners of the devices, and the pricing for RAM and storage are insane. I don't want to dislike Apple becau…

> their stand against US law enforcement on things like encryption Are you referring to the San Bernadino shooter's iPhone? Because Apple's attempt to introduce CSAM scanning is certainly not what I would call a stand against US law enforcement.

> Because Apple's attempt to introduce CSAM scanning is certainly not what I would call a stand against US law enforcement.

I do. Because they listened to the dissent and changed course. CSAM scanning offline on the phone is effectively dead.

Re: Asahi Linux project's OpenGL support on Apple Silicon officially surpasses Apple

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Post by monooso »

larrik wrote: post #7

I switched to an M1 Air back at the beginning of 2021, was on Linux (desktop machine) about a decade before that. It's basically purely a work machine (software and management). The hardware is amazing. The battery life is astounding. The software, in almost every area, is inferior to my experience in Linux. The Apple parts generally worst of all (only Microsoft Office on it is worse). In the end, I'm probably 70% as…

Some people prefer Linux (or Windows) to macOS, and that's perfectly reasonable. Some of your gripes are a little curious, though:

> Solutions? Wait for Apple to fix it (or write a wonky script to fix it on boot, which I did). Eventually they did, but ug.

Writing a wonky script to fix something on boot sounds eerily like my Linux experiences.

> to support using 3 finger clicks as middle-click I had to buy software. On Windows this is just built in. On Linux it's on by default.

This could also be phrased as "in some ways macOS works differently to Windows and Linux. However, there is a solution for those who prefer the Linux way."

> to make Spotify work somewhat properly I had to download separate software...

That's Spotify, not macOS.

> if I open Spotify and hit the Play button on my keyboard, Apple Music opens

Yes, Apple Music opening for inexplicable reasons is very annoying.

> it took me a LONG time to figure out how to set Excel to open CSVs instead of Apple's Numbers app

That's just not understanding how macOS works. A 10-second web search would have ended your suffering.

> The Apple calendar app alerts me whenever I create an event in another app (Outlook, Google, whatever).

That doesn't sound entirely unreasonable to me.

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