- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
Maybe someday it’ll be “You want to game on Apple hardware? Use Linux”.
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.
I cannot imagine how difficult and rewarding the work doing this must be. I wish I was a good enough programmer to get involved.
Betcha the docs suck and you can make them better.
Actually they’ve been cleaned a bit recently. More hands the better though
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.
Asahi Linux folks, impressive again
I thought Apple didn’t support OpenGL at all.
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
I think that that is a hardware limitation, not a software one
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.
It is hardware limitation. Those M-series chips have just a few display controllers. Even with Thunderbolt you can’t exceed that limit.
Now we just need Apple M* hardware that can be bought like a regular laptop or PC parts, but that’s never happening sadly.
I wonder what in the Arm world compares GPU-wise with what Apple is doing…
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.
Wait really? I can build an ATX Arm system? I’m a SBC whore but I never even considered a full desktop build…
Nvidia and Linux tho? Not too hopeful about driver quality lol
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.