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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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nightski ◴[06 Jun 23 14:20 UTC] No.36213208[source]▶
This is great work and I commend it. But in other threads people are acting like Asahi Linux hardware support is 100% complete. My fear is that if I were to go this route and purchase the hardware I'd be seeing fraction of the performance and capability I would in Mac OS. To be honest this blog post seems like the project has a long ways to go, not that it is nearly completion.

I just can't justify buying hardware from a company that is so hostile to developers and hackers as nice as it may be.

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1. MBCook ◴[07 Jun 23 01:24 UTC] No.36221582[source]▶
> I just can't justify buying hardware from a company that is so hostile to developers and hackers as nice as it may be.

While I understand what you’re saying, the developers of Asahi have said before that Apple appears to be going out of their way to leave things open for them.

Apple’s boot security is enough they could easily prevent anyone from ever running a non-Apple blessed OS. But Apple made it fully supported to boot directly into a non-Apple OS as your primary OS.

They’re not helping by giving code or documentation, but they’re not putting up roadblocks. Apple seems to be happy with a stance of benevolent indifference.

It’s not official support. But a number of PC vendors don’t give official support either.