Realisticly speaking, is Asahi Linux usable right now for a random schmuck who just wants to use his computer?
AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux
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Re: AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux
#242This is super cool. So, wait, does this mean that gaming is better on Linux, on a Mac?
Emulation has unavoidable overhead. For instance, Alyssa mentions in this post that most emulated games will need at least 16 Gigs of RAM at minimum. In addition, native ARM games on MacOS don't have the additional overhead of emulating a different CPU architecture and Graphics API. However, that doesn't take away from this emulated support being an amazing achievement.
> most emulated games will need at least 16 Gigs of RAM at minimum
That's because the RAM is shared with the GPU and most of these games would require a GPU with at least 2-4GB on top of the normal system requirement to have at least 8GB. So, 8GB of RAM would be cutting it close on a mac since part of that would have to be sacrificed for the GPU.
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#243Ok, but why would a hardcore Linux person want to play games that embody everything they hate about Windows in their mode of production, data gathering practices, politics, etc?
People use Linux for a wide variety of reasons and those reasons are very often not ideological. If the only reason to use Linux was ideological, Linux wouldn't be as popular as it is.
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#244Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple is going to do the same thing they did with BSD, WebKit, etc. They will wait until proton is mature enough, fork it, then release it as their own. Why put in the effort this early on?
I think it's still hilarious and crazy that safari/chrome/webkit/blink exploded out of the cute little KHMTL browser called Konqueror in KDE from back in the day. And the root of the whole browser wars thing was microsoft making an absolute dog of a browser for Mac OS X when it came out and then refusing to support it. lmao.
IE 5.5 for OS X was by far the most standard compliant browser of its time. It supported more CSS than either NN 4.x or IE 5 for Windows. Nothing came to surpass it until Mozilla 1.0 and even then it wasn't a slam dunk.
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#245Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can't you famously just return stuff to Amazon within a month for basically any reason? I purchased a monitor from Dell and after a few weeks it became clear that there was a loose connection internally. It was extremely simple to prove. But getting it replaced was hell. I went through the whole process of creating a ticket, talking to 3 different people, taking photos of the thing from every angle and then after the…
It's changing. I imagine that was always intended to be an introductory thing to cement their position in the marketplace.
It's been like that for over a decade now. I hope you're wrong, but I fear you're not.
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#246May I use this space to ask the question: is the M3 substantially different from the M1 and M2 that it is not supported?
M3 and M4 haven't been supported yet because they weren't a priority (looks like they've been focusing on gaming support for the last year or so).
Alyssa said in her talk that they'll probably get it working in 6 months or so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDsksRBLXPk&t=2932s
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crossover experience does not require manual modification by developer
TIL about Crossover. Thanks!
Also note that Codeweavers, Crossover's developer, is a major contributor to both Wine and Proton, so there's a great deal of, um, crossover between these projects.
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A lot of stuff like this shows up, they also have a fork of waydroid and box64. I think a lot of them are projects and a lot of them are just devs with a lot of agency who share the dream
Steam Deck was made possible by their ongoing efforts to enable the play of most of their games catalog on any hardware platform that is computationally capable of running them, regardless of OS or architecture. The end game for Valve isn't Steam Deck 2 or 3 (which is statistically impossible for Valve to produce), but for Steam to be on everything.
Everything except Windows 7 and XP that is.
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"Amazon does the customer service" Sure this isn't Hell ? Because customer service at Amazon is a best non existant, at worse actively against you...
Amazon's customer service (for the web store at least) is fantastic. Even if the core shopping/delivery service fails you, if you complain, they'll take the "customer is always right" position and make you whole. They'll refund or re-ship with no questions asked, without requiring you sending back anything or even so much as providing proof. I'm sure some people must take advantage of that level of customer service,…
Be cautious about calling their customer support if you have "bought" DRM stuff: you can be banned for any reason at any time.
I complained about a failed delivery (broken box, one item missing). They refunded me but then immediately put me on a watch-list, threatening to ban me if I ever complain again. I will never buy anymore on amazon.