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This is Alyssa Rosenzweig. She reverse-engineered Apple's M1 GPU with no public documentation and also developed an open-source Linux driver. (programming.dev)
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[–] djdarren@piefed.social 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I ran it on my M1 mini for several months a year or so back. At that stage it was probably 90% of what I needed it to be, which was bloody impressive. After I no longer needed it for work, I tried using it as my Home Assistant server, but with only 8gb RAM, ultimately it ended up being far more efficient to run HA in a virtual machine in macOS.

But yeah, if you can pick up an M1 for a good price, give it a go. It's good fun.

[–] arsCynic@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I've already been using Linux for ten years, it definitely puts the fun back into computing. This would actually be primarily to know how to install it on a Mac, because when offering to install Linux as a replacement for Windows in groups I am part of, there have been multiple requests for doing so on a Mac. Unfortunately always had to answer I've never done so, so couldn't promise anything.

Anyway, is €375 for an Apple MacBook Air 2020 M1, 256GB a good price?

[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If you're dual booting which is what they recommend, you should probably get a 512 GB model

[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

m2 is also well-supported

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

True. I played about with it on my M2 Air for a bit. But I need my Air to be rock solid because it's how I do my radio show.