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...

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…

    • fosforus@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      30·
      11 months ago

      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.

      • M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
        122·
        11 months ago

        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.

          • Skunk@jlai.luEnglish
            51·
            11 months ago

            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.

            • cevn@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              11 months 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@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        11 months 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

      • Merlin404@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        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.

        • fosforus@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          7·
          11 months ago

          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.

          • KISSmyOS@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            11 months 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.

    • M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      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.

      • Skunk@jlai.luEnglish
        7·
        11 months ago

        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.

        • DJDarrenEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          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.