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Honestly if Apple had embraced Linux, the Apple Silicon CPUs would have been amazing for all sorts of server, scientific, and AI/LLM work. Too bad they are clam
by porphyra 1y ago
Honestly if Apple had embraced Linux, the Apple Silicon CPUs would have been amazing for all sorts of server, scientific, and AI/LLM work. Too bad they are clamping down on the walled garden to focus on consumer toys instead.
- MangoToupe 1y agoReally a matter of perspective, tbh. Linux is also quite toy-like in its mess.
- benoau 1y agoThe real shame is the longevity, M1 Pro and M1 Max got discontinued two and a half years ago so they're on their way to the vintage list and could be entirely obsoleted by the end of this decade! Linux support is the only thing that will keep these machines usable after that.
- zozbot234 1y ago> Honestly if Apple had embraced Linux, the Apple Silicon CPUs would have been amazing for all sorts of server, scientific, and AI/LLM work. You can already do this work on M1/M2 using Asahi. A compute server doesn't need fully working peripherals and external displays.
- solardev 1y agoHow would GPGPU work in such a scenario?
- porphyra 1y agoI do have an M2 Macbook running Asahi, which works amazingly well for my casual use, but I think that there is no way that anyone will use last last gen hardware on a volunteer-developed OS for any actual work, server use cases, and so on.