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Dident Steam dropp support for Macs?
No, Steam works sort of fine on Macs. It's just that there's not many new games on Apple these days. I think even native Linux might have more games these days.
I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s true. But in my mind, Linux gaming is basically perfect.
Luckily, I’m not into the kind of games that don’t work on Linux.
Yeah, with Proton enabled, Linux has 99% of all games in Steam these days.
Now I want to see proton on Asahi Linux on a native apple silicon chip.
I know it’s useless, I still want to try it for my nerd spirit.
I tried it. Nothing works because of ARM sadly. I think it is coming close with Box86 but couldn’t get my games to run.
Sort of fine is even an exaggeration. I gifted my GF don't starve together the other week and steam froze and crashed 3 times just trying to log in. After an hour of trying and failing to get to the library page we just gave up. This is on the current model MBP
I gotcha! Guess i remembered wrong about Macs! I think Linux have a lot of games now with the proton i read around 2900 games that work.
My own experience with Linux and Steam currently (and since roughly beginning of 2023 at least) is that 99% of all games work on Linux/Proton if you enable Proton for everything.
But it's probably somewhat dependent on your distro and hardware. I have all AMD and Nobara, and with this combo I haven't met a game that doesn't work, at least in a year.
In my experience, distro and hardware hardly matters at all.
The 99% figure seems to be about right (I have 2 games out of 240 I can't get to work).
I have an nvidia card and recently tried out Debian, Opensuse, Slackware and Arch, with equal results.
I think Apple dropped some stuff that would make it so 32 but apps wouldn’t work and a ton of games are 32 bit apps. But I’m not sure if they actually did that or just talked about it.
They did it since at least 2 OS version. It is impossible to run a 32 bit software on latest MacOS unless you keep an older version on dual boot. Or Linux but it is still a dual boot.
From memory it did not had a huge impact, most 32 bit software or games are old enough that you slowly start to forget about it and just use something else.
Back in 2019, apparently. Honestly felt like a lot longer
Using Whisky it’s possible to install the Windows version of Steam, after which even 32bit games will run perfectly. I had Portal running on my M2 Air.
It’s just so clunky to have to jump through those hoops.
Valve has stopped supporting Mac on some games (cs2 afaik)