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Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by sneak on Sunday September 06, 2026 @08:19PM (#49592355)
No, lack of GPU acceleration. Give me a laptop with sleep and HDMI output that has no 3d acceleration and I will give you back an unusable laptop.
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Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by sfdlkj3jk342a on Sunday September 06, 2026 @09:43PM (#49592867)
If you don't want to play 3d games or run local LLMs, why is GPU acceleration important when you have a more than capable CPU for any desktop UI?
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Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by teaearlgraycold on Monday September 07, 2026 @12:43AM (#49593978)
Depends on your desktop UI. If you install something like Gnome (as I did with Asahi Linux today on an M3 Air) the animated transitions don’t work. You just get a short frozen period and then it cuts straight to the final state. I could try installing a more barebones DE which has no need for animations.
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Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by spockz on Monday September 07, 2026 @02:00AM (#49594417)
Can you disable animations completely? At least I could in Gnome. It will become more snappy as a result as well.
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Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by teaearlgraycold on Monday September 07, 2026 @05:46AM (#49596232)
I did. Still missing the Vulkan support for Zed. But I noticed my WebGL ray marched shaders run quickly - with glitchy artifacts.
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Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by dylanger on Monday September 07, 2026 @03:39AM (#49595168)
Without 3D accl basic web browsing can sort of suck, QubesOS has software only rendering and you can really feel it.
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Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by harha on Monday September 07, 2026 @08:14AM (#49597421)
Anything built on Electron can be super slow- had issues with snap packages of VS Code and Slack being super slow because CPU would render.
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Re:Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With ... by sneak on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @05:28PM (#49634641)
No CPU is sufficient for standard desktop UI these days. All UI is 3d accelerated now. Your statement would have been true 20 years ago.
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