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Does bluetooth work? If you can't use airpods with a mac it's a no go imo
by lambda_dn 5y ago
Does bluetooth work? If you can't use airpods with a mac it's a no go imo
- robbiet480 5y agoAccording to the post, Bluetooth does not yet work, but this is only a alpha release.
- lambda_dn 5y agoI would switch to linux if they could get BT to work. Macbook Air M1 owner here I need airpods to work otherwise it's not a viable switch. This this is true for many users. Please focus on that guys.
- Raymonf 5y agoCome on, it's the first alpha. If you _need_ it, I'm sure they wouldn't mind you contributing a driver to check it off this page: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Tasks https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Tasks
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- DougMellon 5y agoAny suggestions for a good way to learn driver development?
- rowanG077 5y agoIt's not that different from any other C development. If you know C you can basically hit the ground running. Just read the sources.
- zozbot234 5y agoIf low-level embedded coding "is not different from any other C development", that's not really a positive remark about C. No wonder that software defects are so common in C code.
- tedunangst 5y agoWhat are you expecting to be so different? You call the right functions with the right arguments to get it to do what you want. What language do you use that you can program by calling the wrong function with the wrong arguments?
- floatboth 5y agoThat's if working from documentation. With independent FOSS driver development, the big deal is the reverse engineering.
- tomrod 5y agoSounds like an area for a good, motivated technologist who appreciates lambdas and DNs to contribute, if the project is open source and accepting contributions.
- mort96 5y agoFor some people, Bluetooth will be the one important thing and everything else that doesn't work isn't so important. Other people will be able to live without bluetooth but can't live without the HDMI port. Other people again may not use external screens but absolutely require hardware acceleration. Others still may not care so much about any of that stuff, but need the camera to work for their meetings. And maybe some are absolutely dependent on external storage accessed through Thunderbolt. There's _a lot_ of work still. It's not clear that Bluetooth should be the highest priority of what's left. And this whole undertaking is a monumental task which it's amazing that volunteers are even attempting. Saying "I want bluetooth, please focus on that guys" here seems a bit tone-deaf.
- lambda_dn 5y agoIt's a Linux project aimed at being a Linux OS to compete with MacOs. As per usual with the linux community it's "if you want it roll your own". That's why the year of the Linux desktop will never come.
- nrdvana 5y agoMy "year of the Linux desktop" was 2018 when for the first time ever I was able to play a AAA video game (Deus Ex Mankind Divided) installed from Steam with nothing but normal GUI mouse clicks. Sadly there haven't been many AAA games with Linux compatibility (that I wanted to play) since then. Valve is still pushing it though.
- rowanG077 5y ago> "if you want it roll your own" Yes, and every other mainstream OS is: "No, this is not supported.". I don't see how Linux is seen as worse then that answer. If anything this post proves how rapidly the Linux community moves. Within a year there is working Linux on FULLY proprietary hardware. And not just a funny PoC. No, you can daily drive this thing. Let's see how long it takes for Windows to run on the M1...
- howinteresting 5y agoThis is ridiculous. Linux, including Bluetooth, works great on regular PCs. In fact with Pipewire, Bluetooth on Linux these days is generally in better shape than on other OSes.
- Teever 5y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtdEeI-B21A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtdEeI-B21A
- sliken 5y agoHeh, way lower than accelerated GPU for me. If you really hard up get a USB dongle that works well with Linux.
- musha68k 5y agoSame here. I wonder if Proton is tightly bound to x86_64? My first generation M1 is pretty capable as a low to mid-tier games machine but even with stellar Rosetta 2 performance it's ultimately held back by still too few Mac ports in general.
- tedunangst 5y agoAn arm port of proton would let you run what? Solitaire?
- musha68k 5y agoSomething more like "Death's Door" or "Valheim" would be something that interests me personally :) So yeah, I have no idea how Proton works.
- tedunangst 5y agoSo proton is basically wine, and wine is not an emulator, so there's the first clue. :) It doesn't change cpu architecture.
- musha68k 5y agoFrom the release note above, I guess FEX would have been the "Rosetta 2" for Asahi but seems to be also out of the question ATM so you are right no Proton indeed for the time being. I didn't know Proton was WINE-IS-NOT-an-EMULATOR based thanks for info :) >There is a category of software that will likely never support 16K page sizes: certain emulators and compatibility layers, including FEX. Well, too bad...