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Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare
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Gaming on Mac is infuriating. I brought my MacBook air to my parents last time thinking I could use it to play left 4 dead with mom. Which used to run at 120 fps. Now it doesn't run at all. Lol
That's because l4d runs on x86 and new macs are arm chips.
Also important that Mac primarily supports their own proprietary graphics api, while other platforms support open standards like Opengl and Vulkan. Which makes coding games for Apple a pain few are willing to endure.
The games that WORK run incredibly on my M4 MacBook Air… the 15-20% of my Steam collection. D: ah well, that’s not what it’s for anyway.
Lol l4d ran natively until recently. Should have brought my steam deck.