Asahi Gaming improves on Mac hardware.

[dos2unix]

Gaming on Fedora Asahi Remix - Fedora Magazine

Better support for gaming on Fedora Asahi with the game playing toolkit

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Today at XDC 2024, we announced the preliminary availability of our game playing toolkit, integrating x86 emulation with MS Windows compatibility. This toolkit, with the conformant Vulkan 1.3 and OpenGL 4.6 drivers, enables playing commercial AAA games on Apple Silicon Macs running Fedora Asahi Remix 40.

So this is the end of the no gaming on Mac meme… and it ends with Linux.

Note: This is KDE/Plasma only.

I personally still don't own a Mac, but a guy down the street does and we have been playing with this. It is a noticeable improvement for sure.

 

[f33dm3bits]

I've never owned Mac hardware, but looks like a cool project! Is Fedora Asahi just Fedora but made for M1/M2 or does it differ in some ways having something that other distributions don't?

 

[dos2unix]

Is Fedora Asahi just Fedora but made for M1/M2

That's all.

does it differ in some ways having something that other distributions don't?

Just newer versions of Vulkan and OpenGL. Everything else is mostly the same.

 

[KGIII]

I have owned some Apple products in the past.

I'd love to buy one of their newer M3-powered devices, but Apple is pretty 'anti-repair'. Thats slowly changing but only because the laws are likely to be changing.

What I can say is that the ARM processors are reaching parity with those M3 performance specs. In some cases, they exceed it - and ARM powered laptops can go a long time without being recharged. They sip power like I sip wine. Well, no... They sip less power than that.

So, some patience is in order. The prices are pretty good on them. Microsoft is doing a half-baked attempt to work with ARM but a lot of software still won't work. Give it time and that will trickle down to us Linux users.

Though, we do already have distros compiled to run on ARM architecture. I've yet to try it. I don't own such a device. If I find time (and motivation) I'll pick one up and see what I can accomplish with it and how performant they really are.

 

[APTI]

I have owned some Apple products in the past.

I'd love to buy one of their newer M3-powered devices, but Apple is pretty 'anti-repair'. Thats slowly changing but only because the laws are likely to be changing.

What I can say is that the ARM processors are reaching parity with those M3 performance specs. In some cases, they exceed it - and ARM powered laptops can go a long time without being recharged. They sip power like I sip wine. Well, no... They sip less power than that.

So, some patience is in order. The prices are pretty good on them. Microsoft is doing a half-baked attempt to work with ARM but a lot of software still won't work. Give it time and that will trickle down to us Linux users.

Though, we do already have distros compiled to run on ARM architecture. I've yet to try it. I don't own such a device. If I find time (and motivation) I'll pick one up and see what I can accomplish with it and how performant they really are.

I have been running Fedora on ARM without issue since F-38. Mostly on Raspberry Pi because the raspian they like to ship is somewhat bad. Out of date, slow on updates and firefox esr is more like owning a Yugo. On Fedora I get full version everything.

 

[KGIII]

I have been running Fedora on ARM without issue since F-38. Mostly on Raspberry Pi because the raspian they like to ship is somewhat bad. Out of date, slow on updates and firefox esr is more like owning a Yugo. On Fedora I get full version everything.

Nice. By the way, Apple just announced their M4 itteration of their CPU. I haven't gone through the tech pages but it sounds interesting. ARM may very well be the way of the future. I have no problems with that.

 

[dos2unix]

Fedora Asahi Remix 41 is now available - Fedora Magazine

Announcing the availability of Fedora Asahi Remix 41

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Fedora Asahi, now has a few spins. KDE, Gnome, and Server Edition.

Fedora Asahi Remix offers KDE Plasma 6.2 as our flagship desktop experience. It also features a custom Calamares-based initial setup wizard. A GNOME variant is also available, featuring GNOME 47, with both desktop variants matching what Fedora Linux offers. Fedora Asahi Remix also provides a Fedora Server variant for server workloads and other types of headless deployments. Finally, we offer a Minimal image for users that wish to build their own experience from the ground up.