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This is Alyssa Rosenzweig. She reverse-engineered Apple's M1 GPU with no public documentation and also developed an open-source Linux driver. (europe.pub)
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[–] 43 points 1 month ago* (4 children)

very based

personally grateful as i daily drive asahi linux

posting this comment from an m2 macbook pro running fedora asahi

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    The only reason I'm not buying an M series macbook is because I thought there's no Linux support, have things changed? Is it all unofficial?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago*

    support is neither official (by apple) nor unofficial (a hack), you can install other operating systems to apple silicon macs without any jailbreaks/hacks, but linux was ported by a community team

    only m1 and m2 are properly supported

    m3 is WIP, m4 is very WIP, m5 and m6 idk if are even started

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago*

    M1 and M2 got unofficial Linux support pretty quickly. M3 still lacks GPU support last I checked and Apple is on M6 now. The oldest devices they sell are M4 and M1 is a year away from losing all support from Apple from what I was told, so yes things have changed but not in a good way. I've heard that the Framework 13 Pro might be a decent alternative though

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