I'm still in shock how quickly they have progressed.
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?
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.
Virtualization actually, dont know why though
She's the GOAT
I wanna do Mesa because of Lina
The brain however does not want to cooperate (it wants to defrag)
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?
Always thought it was "Greatest of all time"
Yeah, that's what I meant too.
The Gods be damned it can run Crysis
I have no idea what asahi linux is and at that point I am to afraid to ask
Fedora linux distribution for apple silicon (M series) computers
With added firmware/drivers for better hardware compatibility
Yeah, I think my comment really undersold the work that the Asahi team has been doing
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.
Isn't it cause its the handle of the main dev?
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)
They are both on Mastodon. Lina just posted an updated list of games, there's a ton of them
Or Let Me Duck That For You for added snarkiness
TIL: that exists.
Linux distro for apple ARM devices with reverse engineered drivers.
Asahi Linux is the "have linux run on apple M series CPUs" project
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.
No Doom?
Since you asked...
Now it's complete! No party without Doom. ^^
BUT CAN IT RUN CRYSIS
Yes it can
Btw the "official COPR" for krun
on Fedora seems unmaintained, but there is a new one with recent builds.
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