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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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Why do we care? Ashai Linux is obviously a high-IQ effort and we are very fortunate they are motivated to work on this instead of something else (like ML)

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Bruh there's a huge difference between murdering your wife and being a vtuber. The latter has never hurt anyone.

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

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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…

Meanwhile linux keybindings appear stuck in the 80s

How? They exist and they're customizable, unlike Windows's.

And I'll bet you you can't bind xkill to Ctrl-Alt-Esc, and your cursor turns into a little skull-and-crossbones, and whatever you click immediately vaporizes via a SIGKILL, on a Mac. :p

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

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Your obsession with how people decide to present themselves is what's creepy and weird.

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Some parts of the programming community has always embraced counterculture/things the public sees as bizzare. Surprise surprise, it's also the part that spends a lot more on the computer than even the already addicted average programmer. So they tend to be godly at the craft compared to us lesser mortals that still maintain some normal social behaviour and they can produce amazing stuff like this. Be thankful for it.

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

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Meanwhile linux keybindings appear stuck in the 80s

How? They exist and they're customizable, unlike Windows's. And I'll bet you you can't bind xkill to Ctrl-Alt-Esc, and your cursor turns into a little skull-and-crossbones, and whatever you click immediately vaporizes via a SIGKILL, on a Mac. :p

I'm referring specifically to the use of ctrl as a primary key for both the shell and the ux. How did this happen?

Anyway, keybindings are certainly changeable if you're ready to dive into a hundred distinct projects each defining their own key handling. There's no truly system wide way to alter system keybindings in any meaningful sense.

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

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I thought Asahi Linux's sole developer didn't allow discussion of his project here? I remember there being quite a lot of fallout from that, what happened?

> didn't allow

How would he even enforce this?

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

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Why do we care? Ashai Linux is obviously a high-IQ effort and we are very fortunate they are motivated to work on this instead of something else (like ML)

I actually don’t care, and I think the community is better off being explicitly welcoming of folks of all kinds.

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

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Is...that Hector Martin's vtuber persona? I was under the impression that they were different people.

It almost certainly is. But it's never been officially confirmed and I doubt Hector ever would as it was never his intention.

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

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I thought Asahi Linux's sole developer didn't allow discussion of his project here? I remember there being quite a lot of fallout from that, what happened?

How can someone forbid discussion of something on a site they don't own/control?

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

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Interesting! I didn't know they were the same person, but coming from a queer perspective, I'm inclined to just treat people as they ask to be treated. If someone is doing impressive work, I think it's important to respect the way they want to be treated, even if it's non-traditional.

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

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Just the thought of how to prioritize things in all of the reversing is enough to make me overwhelmed. Have they talked about how they prioritize? "Asahi's most recent update blog post, published in mid-January, highlighted HDMI support, support for DRM-protected websites via Google's proprietary Widevine package, Touchbar support for the handful of Apple Silicon Macs that use one, and more." Seems odd to me that a L…

The Asahi team isn't some monolithic corporation with a prioritised backlog.

The skillsets and amount of work involved in getting Widevine working (quickly porting the binary from ARM64 ChromeOS) vs USB 3 (reverse engineer Apple's unique undocumented implementation and write a Linux kernel driver for it) are completely different.

It's open source, if someone volunteers a Widevine implementation for Asahi then the maintainers aren't going to say no.

Generally speaking Alyssa does GPU reverse engineering, Marcan does the other hardware reverse engineering, Asahi Lina writes the GPU driver and everyone else does various miscellaneous bits (like userspace binaries).

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