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Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] realitista@lemmus.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's simple, Apple has never cared about gaming except for that 1 year you are talking about. They've done fuck all to get developers to target mac and it shows.

[–] Zagorath@quokk.au 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I'm talking about the whole period of like 2010 to about 2018.

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 2 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I definitely don't remember any sort of golden era of mac gaming like that. I remember them announcing some games along with their Metal API's and that was about the end of that .

[–] Zagorath@quokk.au 2 points 22 hours ago

I wouldn't have described it as a golden era. More like a constant, steady, quiet sense of improvement.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I had a friend who gamed on a Mac for a while during that period, most games did work for her.

I do think the M series chips set it back a bit because most games aren't targeting ARM, so you have to use Rosetta to emulate reducing performance

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

And now Rosetta is getting deprecated in the next release too!

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

There are some pretty good emulation layers for the M chips. If Apple set up a certification program like Steam Deck has, they'd be in pretty good shape.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago

Except I'm sure they'd charge out the ass and they don't seem to put any effort into gaming 🤷