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[–] mudle@lemmy.ml 65 points 2 years ago

I'm still in shock how quickly they have progressed.

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 36 points 2 years ago (8 children)

So how does that work given that most Steam games are x86/x64 and the M2 is an ARM processor? Does it emulate an x86 CPU? Isn't that slow, given that it's an entirely different architecture, or is there some kind of secret sauce?

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Emulation.

Definitely going to incur a performance hit relative to native code, but in principle it could be perfectly good. It's not like the GPU is running x86 code in the first place. On macOS, Apple provides Rosetta to run x86 Mac apps, and it's very, very good. Not sure how FEX compares.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 years ago

Virtualization actually, dont know why though

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[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] imikoy@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

I wanna do Mesa because of Lina

The brain however does not want to cooperate (it wants to defrag)

[–] Zucca@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've always thought GOAT stands for Gentleman Of All Trades. I make a wild guess it's Girl Of All Trades in this case?

[–] Custard@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Always thought it was "Greatest of all time"

[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, that's what I meant too.

[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 2 years ago

The Gods be damned it can run Crysis

[–] Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I have no idea what asahi linux is and at that point I am to afraid to ask

[–] fossphi@lemm.ee 54 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fedora linux distribution for apple silicon (M series) computers

[–] afk_strats@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

With added firmware/drivers for better hardware compatibility

[–] fossphi@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I think my comment really undersold the work that the Asahi team has been doing

[–] Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Asahi means “rising sun” in Japanese, and it is also the name of an apple cultivar. 旭りんご (asahi ringo) is what we know as the McIntosh Apple, the apple variety that gave the Mac its name.

If you're thinking what I'm thinking, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with beer.

[–] InfiniWheel@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Isn't it cause its the handle of the main dev?

[–] imikoy@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No, lead dev is marcan. Asahi Lina is a vtuber who had reverse-engineered Apple GPU and wrote the driver for it (in tandem with Alyssa Rosenzweig)

[–] reallyzen@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

They are both on Mastodon. Lina just posted an updated list of games, there's a ton of them

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Linux distro for apple ARM devices with reverse engineered drivers.

[–] imikoy@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

Asahi Linux is the "have linux run on apple M series CPUs" project

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 years ago

The Asahi team never fails to impress. You can support the project at their Patreon. You don't need to care about Apple hardware to see the value in the work they're doing getting ported over to ARM PCs. Who knows? You might be donating to the health of your preferred distro on a device you will own down the road.

[–] imikoy@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

BUT CAN IT RUN CRYSIS

Yes it can

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] muhyb@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

Now it's complete! No party without Doom. ^^

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Btw the "official COPR" for krun on Fedora seems unmaintained, but there is a new one with recent builds.