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> 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.

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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!

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