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Asahi Linux distro can now run AAA games like Cyberpunk 2077 or The Witcher 3 on Apple Silicon chips


Asahi Linux is an ambitious project aimed at bringing a "polished" Linux experience to Apple Silicon Macs. The system was created by Hector Martin, known as "Marcan,"...

Highly anticipated: A few years after introducing Linux support for Apple's custom-designed Arm chips, Asahi developers are now shifting their focus to gaming. Rosenzweig, who has been developing the graphics drivers for Asahi, detailed the challenges the team faced in achieving this milestone, noting the work will improve support for other non-gaming x86 applications as well. Asahi's new gaming stack consists of three key components: Fex, an x86 ISA emulator for Arm; Wine, which translates Windows APIs to Linux; and the DXVK + vkd3d-proton combo to convert DirectX calls to Vulkan.

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