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The real shame is the longevity, M1 Pro and M1 Max got discontinued two and a half years ago so they're on their way to the vintage list and could be entirely obsoleted by the end of this decade! Linux support is the only thing that will keep these machines usable after that.

> Honestly if Apple had embraced Linux, the Apple Silicon CPUs would have been amazing for all sorts of server, scientific, and AI/LLM work.

You can already do this work on M1/M2 using Asahi. A compute server doesn't need fully working peripherals and external displays.

I do have an M2 Macbook running Asahi, which works amazingly well for my casual use, but I think that there is no way that anyone will use last last gen hardware on a volunteer-developed OS for any actual work, server use cases, and so on.

How would GPGPU work in such a scenario?

The M1/M2 GPU is supported via Vulkan Compute. (Or OpenCL/SYCL, going through rusticl.)

Thank you!

Really a matter of perspective, tbh. Linux is also quite toy-like in its mess.