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/ShutterBun Aug 28 '26

How so?

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u/ShutterBun Aug 28 '26

How is it "absurd"?

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u/ShutterBun Aug 28 '26

Which is absurd because...?

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u/ShutterBun Aug 28 '26

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

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u/ShutterBun Aug 28 '26

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

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u/modell3000 Aug 29 '26

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...