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·
    10 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·
      10 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·
          10 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·
            10 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·
      10 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·
      10 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·
        10 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·
          10 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.