Linux @lemmy.ml ReallyZen @lemmy.ml 4 wk. ago

AsahiLina: ✨ We got a bunch of Steam games to run on Asahi Linux!!! ✨

vt.social Asahi Lina (朝日リナ) // nullptr::live (@lina@vt.social)

Attached: 1 image ✨ We got a bunch of Steam games to run on Asahi Linux!!! ✨ Most of them run at a solid 60FPS and all of them are playable on my M2 Pro~ 🚀 All running on a krun microVM with FEX and full TSO support 💪 I was not expecting Party Animals to run! That's a DX11 game, running with t...

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Apple @lemmy.world ReallyZen @lemmy.ml 4 wk. ago

AsahiLina: ✨ We got a bunch of Steam games to run on Asahi Linux!!! ✨

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is linux already better for gaming on macs than macos?
- Sure looks like it
- As an actual M1+Asahi user and a gamer: Asahi is not there yet. Right now, if you're on macOS, Crossover (or Porting Kit) and/or Parallels is able to run more games and with better performance compared to Asahi (using krun + FEX). Also, Steam on macOS (non-native) is much more peformant compared to Asahi, where it's currently slow and glitchy.
  
  But that will all change in the future once the Vulkan driver and TSO patches are ready. FEX is also seeing a lot of improvements, so by the end of the year, there's a good chance that gaming on Asahi would be much better than macOS.
- I'd argue that it may come to that, given the poor availability of (steam) games for the macos platform. And when it is available, you may end up with a disclaimer that it may not run anyway.
- You've gotten a lot of answers (mostly no), but I will say Minecraft runs better on Linux on Mac than MacOS on Mac!
- You can use Whisky which is a convenient wrapper for WINE to run the Windows version of Steam. Simple games like Dredge work flawlessly on my M1 but anything used for benchmarking FPS is unacceptably slow. Translation of Intel code is the biggest issue. I assume Asahi has the same limitations as Mac OS but it is impressive what they’ve been able to do.
  
  There's a native Linux version of Steam (at least for Ubuntu / Mint) that works great. It also uses a proprietary Wine wrapper called Proton, that's pre-configured for all your Steam Library games.
- No Vulkan and just WineD3D on OpenGL makes it hard to consider good. Might be pretty good after they find a way to run Vulkan on it, which might be tricky given how the hardware was explicitly designed to run just the proprietary Metal API.
  
  A vulkan driver already exists and has made progress, it just needs some more time.
I'm still in shock how quickly they have progressed.
So how does that work given that most Steam games are x86/x64 and the M2 is an ARM processor? Does it emulate an x86 CPU? Isn't that slow, given that it's an entirely different architecture, or is there some kind of secret sauce?
- Emulation.
  
  Definitely going to incur a performance hit relative to native code, but in principle it could be perfectly good. It's not like the GPU is running x86 code in the first place. On macOS, Apple provides Rosetta to run x86 Mac apps, and it's very, very good. Not sure how FEX compares.
  
  Virtualization actually, dont know why though
- Why not click the link and find out? It's literally a Mastodon post, you don't even have to read much.
  
  The post doesn't answer the questions, it's why I asked.
  
  It says:
  
  All running on a krun microVM with FEX and full TSO support 💪
  
  I was not expecting Party Animals to run! That's a DX11 game, running with the classic WineD3D on our OpenGL 4.6 driver!
  
  Now I know some of these words, but it does not answer my question.
She's the GOAT
- I wanna do Mesa because of Lina
  
  The brain however does not want to cooperate (it wants to defrag)
- I've always thought GOAT stands for Gentleman Of All Trades. I make a wild guess it's Girl Of All Trades in this case?
  
  Always thought it was "Greatest of all time"
The Gods be damned it can run Crysis
I have no idea what asahi linux is and at that point I am to afraid to ask
- Fedora linux distribution for apple silicon (M series) computers
  
  With added firmware/drivers for better hardware compatibility
- Asahi means “rising sun” in Japanese, and it is also the name of an apple cultivar. 旭りんご (asahi ringo) is what we know as the McIntosh Apple, the apple variety that gave the Mac its name.
  
  If you're thinking what I'm thinking, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with beer.
  
  Isn't it cause its the handle of the main dev?
- https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Asahi+Linux+&ia=web
  
  Or Let Me Duck That For You for added snarkiness
- Linux distro for apple ARM devices with reverse engineered drivers.
- Asahi Linux is the "have linux run on apple M series CPUs" project
The Asahi team never fails to impress. You can support the project at their Patreon. You don't need to care about Apple hardware to see the value in the work they're doing getting ported over to ARM PCs. Who knows? You might be donating to the health of your preferred distro on a device you will own down the road.
No Doom?
- Since you asked...
  
  Now it's complete! No party without Doom. ^^
BUT CAN IT RUN CRYSIS

Yes it can
Btw the "official COPR" for krun on Fedora seems unmaintained, but there is a new one with recent builds.

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