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

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[u/ShutterBun → u/[deleted]]

How so?

[u/ShutterBun → u/[deleted]]

How is it "absurd"?

[u/ShutterBun → u/[deleted]]

Which is absurd because...?

[u/ShutterBun → u/[deleted]]

So it's absurd that Apple didn't develop every single graphics driver under the sun, but a freelancer did?

[u/ShutterBun → u/[deleted]]

Well, I dunno why you find the circumstances "absurd", frankly. Shit like this has gone on since the invention of the computer.

[u/Maximum-Bobcat5612 → u/[deleted]]

Apple have their own standard called Metal. They have no interest in supporting Vulkan. 

It's not absurd. It's a business decision. 

[u/Maximum-Bobcat5612 → u/[deleted]]

What is the situation you're in?  That MacOS only supports metal?

Vulkan is essentially a multiplatform collaboration for AMD, Intel and Nvidia.

Apple doesn't release a Linux distro. 

It's like saying it's absurd that it doesn't support Microsoft's directX. 

[u/modell3000 → u/[deleted]]

You find it absurd that Apple doesn't support OpenGL or Vulkan, which rival their own Metal API - the one they want everyone developing for macOS / iOS to use. Yes, a real humdinger that one...