Nice but I’m surprised it took this long when Apple is doing its best to make OSX the worst possible platform for gaming.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Apple’s macOS has been the second most popular operating system on the Steam game distribution platform for a long time, but that has now changed.
Linux has surpassed macOS for the number two spot, according to Steam’s July user hardware survey.
Steam regularly asks its users to give an anonymized look at their hardware, and the company makes the information it gathers available each month.
The Steam Deck was first released a while ago, but it only became widely available without a waiting list last October.
It worked with game publishers to see high-profile releases like Resident Evil Village and No Man’s Sky in recent months, and those games run pretty well on modern Macs—certainly better than similar titles on Intel-based Macs with integrated graphics chips.
It also announced a new gaming porting tool in an upcoming version of macOS that works in some ways like Proton, as seen on the Steam Deck.
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Holy shit, the tl;dr bot has made it over. Thank the lord!
It’s really cool they’re considering a Mac version of Proton, it shows to me a more genuine attempt to improve the gaming ecosystem than I’d expect from most companies.
Who tf uses a Mac for gaming?
Those people with a Mac that want to play a game.
People said this about Linux before the steam deck and well, here we are.
There are people.
Appearently more people than Linux. I assume people who just want to be superior with status and money or just straight up hate Windows/Microsoft and don’t know anything else. Or they think Apple is the solution… i really don’t know.
Well, less than Linux now apparently
And I helped!
there are games for mac?!
Depending on what games you played, mac was a decent alternative for gaming. Blizzard treated mac as a first class platform for many years, indie games using multi platform engines often targeted it, and porting studios like aspyr would bring over a few big titles here and there.
Linux was in a similar boat before proton really opened things up, but with even less support than mac from game devs.
It’s not just Steam Deck. It’s also Proton, which managed to do what Lutris couldn’t: make Magic Arena consistently work in WINE on my Linux desktop.
Proton is the reason I don’t need any Windows machines anymore
I just need to suck it up and make the switch over already.
Would recommend, I actually enjoy interacting with my computer now rather than just tolerating Windows
I have it dual booting, just need to make the switch over to primary.
That’s easy, just change the boot order so it defaults to Linux. If it’s a pain to boot into Windows, you’ll use it less and naturally replace your usage with Linux.
Try it for a week or two, you probably won’t feel the need to go back. Make the switch today.
