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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 opan »

breather wrote: post #60
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…

Meanwhile linux keybindings appear stuck in the 80s

Tiling WMs tend to make heavy use of the super key. I would hate to lose all my keybinds because of copy/paste and such moving. I do think the macOS approach is conceptually cool (emacs/readline binds everywhere is neat) and makes sense, but I also hate actually using macOS, especially window management stuff. I guess if there were a way for people to have it both ways, all would be well.

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

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Post by polotics »

HideousKojima wrote: post #59
delroth wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

[flagged]

Maybe consider that the loudness you resent is the result of reflexivity, and in a world where no-one would flip an eyelid over such persona creation and whatnot, there would only be the loudness you'd mistakenly perceive.

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

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Post by viraptor »

larrik wrote: post #52
zamadatix wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By 4k monitor do you mean a high DPI monitor? Not much has changed in regards to resolution support, that should always have been fine, but a lot has changed in regards to high DPI support with Wayland now having "real" (direct) fractional scaling which makes it even better at approaching the problem than macOS which has "fake" (render and scale) fractional scaling. KDE Plasma and QT apps (the default desktop environ…

Sure, high DPI. I really mean scaling. On Linux, I plugged in the 4k and everything is tiny tiny tiny. I tried to make it a little bigger, and some stuff grows, other stuff doesn't, and some stuff just broke. Then in the end I was sort of stuck in this weird frankenstein of settings that looked like crap on any monitor. Like I said, this was over 3 years ago and the Linux install was very old at that point (I think i…

This is just a slider in KDE these days. You tried it on an ancient system where it wasn't implemented yet.

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

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Post by RobotToaster »

nozzlegear wrote: post #83
blastersyndrome wrote: post #50

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?

Everyone else is asking how they wouldn’t allow discussion on HN, but I’m more interested in why they don’t want discussion on HN?

Someone here pointed out that one of the developers on the project is actually the primary developer's vtuber persona.

That's literally it.

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

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Post by pests »

HideousKojima wrote: post #75
louthy wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What’s “normal”? You?

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People have used pen names all the time.

Look at you, HideousKojima. What's your real name? Why do you pretend to be this online alias? Is it normal to hide your identity and interact as if you were someone else?

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

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Post by cobertos »

nozzlegear wrote: post #83
blastersyndrome wrote: post #50

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?

Everyone else is asking how they wouldn’t allow discussion on HN, but I’m more interested in why they don’t want discussion on HN?

Probably just not wanting to deal with the unsavory side of the lurking userbase on HN or the poor, ill-informed discussion on sensitive/political topics? There are certain things HN is not good at talking about

There are multiple people I've seen express this in-desire towards HN

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

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Post by Sunspark »

larrik wrote: post #52
zamadatix wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By 4k monitor do you mean a high DPI monitor? Not much has changed in regards to resolution support, that should always have been fine, but a lot has changed in regards to high DPI support with Wayland now having "real" (direct) fractional scaling which makes it even better at approaching the problem than macOS which has "fake" (render and scale) fractional scaling. KDE Plasma and QT apps (the default desktop environ…

Sure, high DPI. I really mean scaling. On Linux, I plugged in the 4k and everything is tiny tiny tiny. I tried to make it a little bigger, and some stuff grows, other stuff doesn't, and some stuff just broke. Then in the end I was sort of stuck in this weird frankenstein of settings that looked like crap on any monitor. Like I said, this was over 3 years ago and the Linux install was very old at that point (I think i…

If using Gnome, only use integer scaling. 100%, 200%, 400%.

KDE will have working fractional scaling for the DE and apps using QT and there you can adjust a slider to a % you like.

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

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Post by mavamaarten »

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…

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