Newest driver supports the latest versions of OpenGL and OpenGL ES.
    • leopold@lemmy.kde.socialEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      Well, it is already like that for x86 Macs. Once Asahi gets a solid Vulkan driver, this could also extend to the ARM Macs. Linux has been far more viable for gaming that MacOS for a while now. The lack of Vulkan and 32bit support in modern MacOS has been crippling for Wine/Proton, though it’s gotten better thanks to Wine 9.0 and MoltenVK.

  • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    5 months ago

    I cannot imagine how difficult and rewarding the work doing this must be. I wish I was a good enough programmer to get involved.

    • Julian@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      I feel like I’m a decent programmer but stuff like this just feels like magic to me. Huge respect to the people who work on this kind of stuff.

  • astraeus@programming.dev
    1·
    5 months ago

    As soon as they can make multiple displays work over a single USB-C I may be able to ditch the double dongle nightmare I have right now

      • astraeus@programming.dev
        1·
        5 months ago

        It’s not. It’s 100% a MacOS limitation, because you can use MST on Windows to drive multiple displays on Mac hardware, the same is likely possible with Asahi Linux if they want to support it. Apple doesn’t want to use MST because they want you to buy into their Thunderbolt displays for extra monitors, or you can just use DisplayLink if you’re desperate like me.

        • Noa Himesaka@lemmy.funami.tech
          1·
          5 months ago

          It is hardware limitation. Those M-series chips have just a few display controllers. Even with Thunderbolt you can’t exceed that limit.

  • kugmo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0·
    5 months ago

    Now we just need Apple M* hardware that can be bought like a regular laptop or PC parts, but that’s never happening sadly.

      • dsemy@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        Nvidia has Arm drivers for their GPUs, not sure about AMD. It should be possible to build an Arm laptop with a dedicated GPU.

        Edit: BTW there are already Arm PCs you can buy which have PCIe, and can use (at least Nvidia) desktop GPUs.

        • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          Wait really? I can build an ATX Arm system? I’m a SBC whore but I never even considered a full desktop build…

          • leopold@lemmy.kde.socialEnglish
            2·
            5 months ago

            I think the situation is different for their mobile hardware. IIRC the Nintendo Switch’s Nvidia Tegra chip had an official Mesa driver, which made it really easy for modders to get Linux and Android working on the machine.