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OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux

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512 points simjue | 1 comments | 06 Jun 23 13:46 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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kytazo ◴[06 Jun 23 14:18 UTC] No.36213178[source]▶
Its been more than a year I'm running asahi on my macbook air and I can't stress how grateful I feel for enjoying such wonderful freedom.

I don't feel like ever going back to x86 to be honest, at this point there is nothing lacking or unable to run and when the neural engine drivers come online now that the GPU is starting to mature people will be able to juice out every last bit of computation this machine is capable of.

For the record, I've switched to the edge branch a couple of months ago and honestly I noticed no actual difference in my day-to-day tasks which is really telling about how powerful even the M1 is when it can handle software rendering in such an effortless manner coupled with anything else running.

Really thank god for asahi being a thing.

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JCWasmx86 ◴[06 Jun 23 14:46 UTC] No.36213626[source]▶
Would you say buying e.g. a Mac mini for 2.3k€ just to run Asahi Linux is worth it?
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1. jacquesm ◴[06 Jun 23 14:52 UTC] No.36213715[source]▶
Not the OP but I got a 13" and a larger model Mac of the x86 variety when they were still reasonably young and even though I eventually got all of the bits and pieces to work it usually pays off to wait until a somewhat larger distro supports the hardware as well. That way you benefit from a much larger crowd of testers and once they have no more issues you should be good to go.

Moneywise it was definitely worth it, both machines are still working many years later and have been pretty much trouble free after the initial bugs were ironed out.

If I was in the market for a new laptop right now I'd wait for a bit and then pull the trigger on the latest model with broad support.