Re:AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux
by rowanG077 on Thursday October 10, 2024 @04:05PM
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I'm not sure if you know. But Alyssa, the person who basically wrote almost the entire userspace opengl and vulkan driver, works at valve.
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Re:AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux
by dcchambers on Thursday October 10, 2024 @05:03PM
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Wow! I wasn't aware, but that actually gives me a ton of confidence that Valve isn't ignoring ARM with all of their Linux + Proton work.
Her output is incredible.
Re:AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux
by inputError on Thursday October 10, 2024 @05:45PM
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Alyssa rules. We all love Alyssa.
I see cats writing software _with hardly any documentation_ like this and my brain melts. Power level strictly monotonic, possibly exponential, and very very large. Bravissima!
I hope they don’t ignore macOS. They could port proton to run on Metal + Rosetta and then Steam would support all running windows titles on macOS and Linux.
I recognize it’s a hell of an ask, but I think Alyssa could pull it off.
I'm a huge macOS fan but even I have to admit that gaming deserves to have a home on an open-source OS controlled by no one (which would be Linux in this case) and that Steam devoting effort to bring first-class gaming from Windows to macOS is like working to escape from the frying pan into the fire.
Re:AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux
by satvikpendem on Saturday October 12, 2024 @03:58AM
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I use whisky which is WINE underneath to play games on macOS.
I hope that she was working on Asahi full time at valve, because if she did all that while also holding down a day job then I might as well be soylent green.