Pretty much! As in, same goal as Vulkan, but realizing that Vulkan and friends were released ten years ago, and GPUs have changed a lot since then.

The battery life is a non issue for me so far.

It’s much lighter both in my pocket and my hands. It feels much less obtrusive in a pocket overall despite the bump, which when holding it one-handed can sometimes even be an affordance that keeps it from slipping.

I actually really liked it when I tried, so I got one. I realized that I do want a phone that makes its presence more lightly known.

Intermediate Linux user + 6 months of Gentoo = advanced Linux user.

I’m not kidding. You can do this with other distros, but it will get you used to parts of the software engineering process you might not otherwise be exposed to. That was my experience at least.

Apple IIGS ☠️

Oh that’s cool! I thought virtio and such were KVM-specific things. I have never been super clear on the relationship between QEMU and the hypervisor itself, like where one ends and the other begins.

It also seems likely that the perf hit from x86_64 -> ARM64 emulation, even if the emulation is really excellent, might very well eat up any battery savings from the more efficient ARM chip.

My understanding is that ARM chips work fine for gaming when games are built for ARM, but that is far from the norm at the moment.

Is Apple’s tech going to be using KVM machinery then, or are you just saying that it’s possible in general?

Like, you can use the GPU on Linux…with Metal

I wonder if they’re going to allow GPU access from inside the VMs.