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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)

submitted 3 days ago by popcar2@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev

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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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[–] mke@programming.dev 19 points 2 days ago

I don't think this thread is helping.

[+] Kuranashi@lemmy.world -17 points 3 days 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.

[–] popcar2@programming.dev 33 points 3 days 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.

[–] Kuranashi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days 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.

[+] badmin@lemm.ee -31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

good.

[–] Chakravanti@monero.town 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[+] badmin@lemm.ee -13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Couldn't decipher what you wrote there. Maybe it's a result of the same cognitive dissonance that would push someone to deliberately support and buy vendor-locked Linux-unfriendly hardware, then want to run Linux on it.

[–] Chakravanti@monero.town 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

You're just candidly lack any self awareness or you're a vampire acting in total deniability while you smell for blood.

Seriously, asshole, stop insulting people who do shit they just like doing. Just because you don't get it doesn't warrant any corrossive purposeless insults being validated as any kind of quality character.

[–] badmin@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

you’re a vampire acting in total deniability while you smell for blood.

omg 😲

asshole, stop insulting people

huh 🙄

Just because you don’t get it

get what 🤔

doesn’t warrant any corrossive purposeless insults being validated as any kind of quality character.

the irony 🙂

[–] Chakravanti@monero.town 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Seems everyone agrees with me, parasite.

[–] badmin@lemm.ee 1 points 16 hours ago

my echo chamber of delusional unhinged fanatics agrees with me. i win 🎉

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