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Re:Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1 by rand0m4r on Thursday September 29, 2022 @04:37PM (#33026811)
The answer could be: because they like it.

People do great stuff with computers and programming and I think this is a good example. Passion is what it's all about.

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Re:Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1 by coldtea on Thursday September 29, 2022 @06:02PM (#33027910)
This is not about just doing it for passion or for hacking fun despite being worthless of something. There's a very pragmatic reason that makes it very useful!

The "why bother" is missing the crucial point, that the most important use of the GPU driver for Asahi would be HW accelerated desktop (and driving external monitors, etc) - it's not like a GPU driver for M1 is useless if no AAA games aren't supported...

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Re:Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1 by chris_wot on Friday September 30, 2022 @11:15AM (#33036001)
I totally concur, AAA games aren’t really the main driver for desktop Linux anyway.
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