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Asahi Lina: For personal reasons, I no longer feel safe working on Linux GPU drivers or the Linux graphics ecosystem. I've paused work on Apple GPU drivers indefinitely. (mastodon.gamedev.place)

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For personal reasons, I no longer feel safe working on Linux GPU drivers or the Linux graphics ecosystem. I've paused work on Apple GPU drivers indefinitely.

I can't share any more information at this time, so please don't ask for more details. Thank you.

If you think you know what happened or the context, you probably don't. Please don't make assumptions. Thank you.

I'm safe physically, but I'll be taking some time off in general to focus on my health.

Well that's sudden.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 23 hours ago

I don't think this thread is helping.

[+] [email protected] -14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There are a lot of other people also working on Linux gpu drivers. Heck I know someone at AMD doing it now. Lots of people seem to be oddly blowing this out of proportion like it will stop the entire ecosystem of Linux.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The project is for making unofficial drivers for Apple's chips, which very few people are trying to do. Without Asahi, you can't run Linux on Macbooks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Ah thanks for the summary.

Still, very odd to buy expensive hardware that is required for running macOS due to their use license just to run Linux on it. Maybe if you bought it first and then wanted to move away from it, but that seems like a big headache.

Another reason to be wary of Apple then.

[+] [email protected] -25 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Without Asahi, you can’t run Linux on Macbooks.

good.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Hey there, Mr. Obvious but you really shouldn't run around here bragging to be a parasite.

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