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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. (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.world
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[–] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (4 children)

True, but you're not going to get the best out of it with Linux at this point. Asahi makes some sense if you have some older apple hardware already and want to run Linux on it. Buying new Apple hardware to run Linux is not a good idea. I look into it every now and then.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    exactly. its like people who buy a windows laptop, throw on a distro, then go "why is the battery life so shit?"

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    What actually is the explanation for this? I've done the same on 2 old laptops, overall love using Linux but the battery life is like...halved.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    basically the ACPI drivers for the laptop are fine tuned by the OEM with microsoft, unless the laptop ships with linux where the OEM has similar or 1:1 life as windows. dell for awhile (dunno if they still do) were shipping laptops with ubuntu.

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