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Asahi Lina: For personal reasons, I no longer feel safe working on Linux GPU drivers or the Linux graphics ecosystem. I've paused work on Apple GPU drivers indefinitely. (mastodon.gamedev.place)

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For personal reasons, I no longer feel safe working on Linux GPU drivers or the Linux graphics ecosystem. I've paused work on Apple GPU drivers indefinitely.

I can't share any more information at this time, so please don't ask for more details. Thank you.

If you think you know what happened or the context, you probably don't. Please don't make assumptions. Thank you.

I'm safe physically, but I'll be taking some time off in general to focus on my health.

Well that's sudden.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 17 hours ago

I don't think this thread is helping.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Spinning more drama around this project, that’s what it needs.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

RIP Asahi Linux.

Fuck off to all the fascists ruining OSS.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What fascists are ruining OSS?

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 day ago

Guessing it's because Lina is queer. A little bit ago, I was trying to find what was going on and found a bunch of bigoted comments and conspiracy theories about her and her girlfriend(maybe wife now?).

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wild. All I wanna do now is make assumptions. 🤣

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 day ago

Most of it was pretty much said in the previous announcement from the Asahi leadership. The TL:DR is that people are incredibly entitled, support took a huge downturn, but demands kept rising, and allegedly there have been numerous personal attacks on people. The Linux project leadership drama was just the whipped cream on top of the cake

[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This is the worst way how to announce something like this.

I don't know the context, but if the goal was to not start a wave of speculations, it would be better to simply not hint at anything. I wonder what happened, and I respect if they don't want to deal with it, but this does feel weird.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 58 minutes ago

Maybe the goal was to spur speculation, but I don’t know how that would benefit anyone. I’m curious if any additional info will come to light.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 21 hours ago

It's basically vaguebooking.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 day ago

I no longer feel safe

Please don’t make assumptions

Yeah wtf is that. If there are reasons to feel unsafe that arent just entirely individual, then you should tell other people that might be in danger. If its entirely individual, then state that so that other people wont be worried about their safety.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (22 children)

First Marcan, now Lina. Huge blow to the Asahi project :(

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

WTF? Is somebody threatening her for working on open source drivers???

What is this fucking timeline...

Edit: ohhhhh...there seems to be a LOT of underlying stuff happening here. Like Lina is an anime alter-ego of Marcan I guess? So confused...

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago (6 children)

These talking points about identity originated from kiwi farms.

It's this kind of weird unhealthy speculation that gets people to step down.

I'd not perpetuate it.

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[+] [email protected] -6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

There are a lot of other people also working on Linux gpu drivers. Heck I know someone at AMD doing it now. Lots of people seem to be oddly blowing this out of proportion like it will stop the entire ecosystem of Linux.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

The project is for making unofficial drivers for Apple's chips, which very few people are trying to do. Without Asahi, you can't run Linux on Macbooks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Ah thanks for the summary.

Still, very odd to buy expensive hardware that is required for running macOS due to their use license just to run Linux on it. Maybe if you bought it first and then wanted to move away from it, but that seems like a big headache.

Another reason to be wary of Apple then.

[+] [email protected] -10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Without Asahi, you can’t run Linux on Macbooks.

good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Hey there, Mr. Obvious but you really shouldn't run around here bragging to be a parasite.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Couldn't decipher what you wrote there. Maybe it's a result of the same cognitive dissonance that would push someone to deliberately support and buy vendor-locked Linux-unfriendly hardware, then want to run Linux on it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

You're just candidly lack any self awareness or you're a vampire acting in total deniability while you smell for blood.

Seriously, asshole, stop insulting people who do shit they just like doing. Just because you don't get it doesn't warrant any corrossive purposeless insults being validated as any kind of quality character.

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