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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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[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I'm typing this on a M1 Pro McBook right now and let me tell you, from all of my Steam games maybe 10% are compatible with macOS/Apple Silicon. I tried Crossover and it kinda sucks.

It's a shame really when you consider that Apple once had a better gaming scene than Windows/MS DOS, but it clearly hadn't been a focus for Apple for a long time until maybe 2 or so years ago.

But yeah, gaming on Linux is awesome and is gonna get even better with stuff like Wine 11 eventually coming to Proton.

[–] vacuumflower 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I tried Crossover and it kinda sucks.

WDYM? It's Wine like Wine. With a GUI similar to PlayOnLinux and such.

I suspect Steam lacking Proton is the main reason you don't like it. That's easy to get used to, yes.

That might be, eh, sort of a business agreement between Valve and Codeweavers, the latter play a significant role in upstream Wine's development after all. And Crossover is their paid product.

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I don't like it because it takes forever to set everything up and in the end you still get errors, or at least I did.

Wine kinda sucks for that exact reason, IMO, if you get it right it works really well but until then it's a troubleshooting nightmare. Maybe Proton made me a bit too lazy.