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Apple Discusses Push Towards High-End Mac Gaming in New Interview (www.macrumors.com)
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Apple Discusses Push Towards High-End Mac Gaming in New Interview::Inverse's Raymond Wong today published an in-depth overview of Apple's increasing push towards high-end gaming on the Mac. The story includes...

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, with Proton enabled, Linux has 99% of all games in Steam these days.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] bjorney 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.