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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Those people are legendary. A bunch of nerds singlehandedly defeating a multi-billions dollars business. I have an M1 for work, if they can manage for Asahi Linux to take advantage of the GPU, I will do 90% of my work on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

if they can manage for Asahi Linux to take advantage of the GPU

Umm, it already does for quite a while now (at least for regular usage). The work they're currently doing will enable people to play games and other GPU-intensive work.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

other GPU-intensive work.

That's what I meant. I've tried a bit of video editing in DaVinci Studio and the performance was far from what I get on macOS.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh boy, Davinci? Don't hold your breath, it's super picky even with the more mature GPU drivers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That's what I was thinking at first but at the speed things are moving with these people, anything can happen.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Wow what a neat project, I have spent a lot of time recently working around vulkan on m1 machines with compatibility layers and while it's not a huge pain it does suck to miss out on some of the more powerful features of vulkan that the hardware is certainly capable of. I'm not keen on learning metal to bridge the gap and this is just what the doctor ordered.

This will be a huge boon for me, way to go!