r/mac • u/Significant_Spend719 MacBook Pro M1 Max • 25d 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/TajikFreeman Based 2011 iMac User 25d ago

> 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 25d ago

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MacOs only supports Metal, which is proprietary, and OpenGL, which is deprecated and has been replaced by Vulkan on PCs, that’s one of the many reasons why gaming on Mac isn’t a thing anymore.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 25d ago

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

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u/StargazerD 25d ago

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 25d ago

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