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Asahi Lina: For personal reasons, I no longer feel safe working on Linux GPU drivers or the Linux graphics ecosystem. I've paused work on Apple GPU drivers indefinitely. (mastodon.gamedev.place)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/linux@programming.dev
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For personal reasons, I no longer feel safe working on Linux GPU drivers or the Linux graphics ecosystem. I've paused work on Apple GPU drivers indefinitely.

I can't share any more information at this time, so please don't ask for more details. Thank you.

If you think you know what happened or the context, you probably don't. Please don't make assumptions. Thank you.

I'm safe physically, but I'll be taking some time off in general to focus on my health.

Well that's sudden.

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[–] 98 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Wild. All I wanna do now is make assumptions. 🤣

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  • [–] 70 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Most of it was pretty much said in the previous announcement from the Asahi leadership. The TL:DR is that people are incredibly entitled, support took a huge downturn, but demands kept rising, and allegedly there have been numerous personal attacks on people. The Linux project leadership drama was just the whipped cream on top of the cake

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    • [–] 96 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    This is the worst way how to announce something like this.

    I don't know the context, but if the goal was to not start a wave of speculations, it would be better to simply not hint at anything. I wonder what happened, and I respect if they don't want to deal with it, but this does feel weird.

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  • [–] 74 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I no longer feel safe

    Please don’t make assumptions

    Yeah wtf is that. If there are reasons to feel unsafe that arent just entirely individual, then you should tell other people that might be in danger. If its entirely individual, then state that so that other people wont be worried about their safety.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Damned right I read that and thought "It's your first day on the internet?"

    There is a small match lit in the floor it will probably snuff out itself but just to be sure let's put it out with gasoline

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    • [–] 75 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    RIP Asahi Linux.

    Fuck off to all the fascists ruining OSS.

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    [–] 52 points 2 years ago (22 children)

    First Marcan, now Lina. Huge blow to the Asahi project :(

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    I don't think this thread is helping.

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Spinning more drama around this project, that’s what it needs.

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    [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (13 children)

    WTF? Is somebody threatening her for working on open source drivers???

    What is this fucking timeline...

    Edit: ohhhhh...there seems to be a LOT of underlying stuff happening here. Like Lina is an anime alter-ego of Marcan I guess? So confused...

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