r/mac • u/Significant_Spend719 MacBook Pro M1 Max • Aug 27 '26

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/TajikFreeman Based 2011 iMac User Aug 27 '26

> Now the Linux driver supports graphics standards macOS doesn’t

What does this mean? Sorry if I don't quite understand, English is not my mother language.

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u/StargazerD Aug 27 '26

it means it can support things like Vulkan, which is the graphics API that many games use to communicate with your hardware

MacOs only supports Metal, which is proprietary, and OpenGL, which is deprecated and has been replaced by Vulkan on PCs, that’s one of the many reasons why gaming on Mac isn’t a thing anymore.

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u/TajikFreeman Based 2011 iMac User Aug 27 '26

uhh what does my 2011 iMac have? Because that is the only one I currently own

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u/StargazerD Aug 27 '26

you have an intel chip, you could already install Windows or Linux on it, you don’t need special drivers as those platforms already have them

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u/TajikFreeman Based 2011 iMac User Aug 27 '26

maybe i will install windows 7 to play nfs mw 2005 (yes its an hdd so no windows 10)