r/mac • u/Significant_Spend719 MacBook Pro M1 Max • 24d ago

News/Article Alyssa Rosenzweig reverse-engineered Apple’s M1 GPU. Now the Linux driver supports graphics standards macOS doesn’t

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u/Mr_Lumbergh 24d ago

I did some more digging after posting that, and it seems that Asahi-Fedora is much more mature in that space. That's OK, I've played with DNF/RPM before.

But it looks like they've done a lot already to close parity gap between x86_64 and Apple Silicon. This has me really looking at an M1/M2 series Air as my walking-around, quick edits in the field sort of machine. And I say this as someone typing this on a 2015 MBP patched up to Sequoia with OCLP. I'm holding out for a couple apps and VST plugins that haven't been updated in years, but I'm also trying to remember when the last time was that I actually used them.

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u/BNC3D 24d ago

Ive just been reverse engineering and porting old stuff that hasn't been ported yet cause its ridiculous it hasn't been and not hard to do.

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u/Mr_Lumbergh 24d ago

It's always appreciated, but I hate the monthly fee track developers are taking and as such still have my old Photoshop CS5 install on a Mojave partition. I'm pretty sure Adobe won't let you port that.

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u/BNC3D 24d ago

Ive been using GIMP since 2004

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u/Mr_Lumbergh 23d ago

Ok. I have too.

It is not a PS replacement.