Re:Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1
by amelius on Friday September 30, 2022 @05:05AM
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So what you are saying is that engineers at Apple have nothing to say about this?
They do, demonstrably, have some sort of say. The M1 Macs have had deliberate support for 3rd party OSes since more or less day 1 (just not exposed/advertised), and Apple made some early changes to enable Asahi. Some recent comments by marcan on the topic:
At this point, trying to expand the user base through sheer hardware improvement or trying to include fringe groups (windows dual boot users, linux user) probably has diminishing returns.
In contrast, service revenue, app revenue and accessories like air pods, the Apple Watch have a much better ROI.
What I'm coming at: they have little incentive to work hard to expand the user base, and a better ROI on expanding revenue from users of their software platform. So I'm not holding my breath on Apple actively helping for windows or linux support anytime soon.