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It's a little funny that after all this brilliance, he's still limited by Apple. Either way, remarkable. I truly hope Nintendo leaves him alone though..
by fezfight 4y ago
It's a little funny that after all this brilliance, he's still limited by Apple.
Either way, remarkable. I truly hope Nintendo leaves him alone though..
- MayeulC 4y agoIt's a bit of a shame the author didn't dig more into it, I am pretty sure MoltenVk gives you a reasonably up-to-date Vulkan on Mac, and I've seen progress lately on zink-over-MoltenVk, which should enable OpenGL 4.6 on macos. On the other hand, that's not really the point of this work.
- bpye 4y ago> It's a bit of a shame the author didn't dig more into it, I am pretty sure MoltenVk gives you a reasonably up-to-date Vulkan on Mac, and I've seen progress lately on zink-over-MoltenVk, which should enable OpenGL 4.6 on macos. Whilst true I don't think there's any way to use that to get better graphics support in a Linux VM - for that you're going to be at the mercy of either VMWare or Parallels. QEMU doesn't do 3D acceleration on macOS hosts AFAIK.
- johntb86 4y agoThe android emulator supports Vulkan 1.1. I wonder if there's a way to use that to run a linux VM with GPU acceleration.
- frostwarrior 4y agoWe'll have to wait until Asahi Linux is mature enough
- fezfight 4y agoYeah, or you could use an open platform and save yourself the trouble.
- generichuman 4y agoIs there an open platform with an ARM processor that has the same caliber of hardware performance / efficiency of M1? If so, I'd rather use that with Linux instead of Apple's locked-down hardware. But as far as I can tell no one except Apple can make performant & light laptops that run cool without a fan.
- fezfight 4y agoThere are no true open platforms. And we are trending towards them being more closed, with Apple leading the charge. For the good of yourself, and future generations, you should not financially support companies that lock things down. Especially not for pointless goal posts/metrics like whether or not it has a fan.
- frostwarrior 4y agoYou think heat and power management is a pointless goal? Technology should be made as a contribution to humanity. But it should also solve problems and make lives easier for its users. A thin and light laptop that consumes a fraction of power and generates a fraction of heat does exactly that. I love FOSS for its contributions to humanity and its capability to be practical. But open hardware is often not. It's usually terribly expensive, very inconvenient or simply badly executed. At some point, being blind to the advancements from a closed platform becomes being blind to people's needs and ending up lost in a cloud of ideology.
- fezfight 4y agoFOSS is great because great people supported it even when it did have, figuratively speaking, a big fan.
- frostwarrior 4y agoActually that's the opposite. Back then, an advantage of Linux against other Unixes was being able to run in a domestic IBM PC Clone. Which, at the time, was the "small fan computer" at least compared to big mainframes running commercial Unix
- steeleduncan 4y ago> I truly hope Nintendo leaves him alone though.. Given the Oracle vs Google lawsuit about the Java API, and that all he has done is reimplement an API, surely there is nothing Nintendo can do?
- jeroenhd 4y agoNintendo abused the DMCA system to take down videos of Switch emulation before. They've hired private investigators to go after and intimidate modders. Their legal team knows that with their excessive legal funds they don't need to care about what the law allows them to do, their lawyers and henchmen can simply bleed their targets dry and make them give up. They're a terrible company that happens to make some fun games.
- matheusmoreira 4y agoNintendo is still a multi-billion dollar company, they can afford to sue him and burn through his time and money even when they know they're wrong.