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[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 39 points 4 weeks ago

I’m a Mac fan. But this has even me going “but y tho?”

Of course it’s “because I could” and “it’s a fun challenge.”

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 3 points 3 weeks ago

I've spent an inordinate amount of time trying to get Windows-only games running through Whisky on my M2 Air. My wife doesn't understand why when her old gaming PC is sitting there for me to use. But for me it's less about actually playing the games and more about the fun of getting them to work.

[-] B0rax@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

As you have an arm Mac: have you looked into the game porting toolkit? You may have more luck than with whisky. Or have they merged it already?

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 3 points 3 weeks ago

AFAIK, Whisky includes the GPTK.

[-] mrvictory1@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

whisky uses gpt

[-] gregor@gregtech.eu 22 points 4 weeks ago

Why would you put yourself through this suffering

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 28 points 4 weeks ago

Why does anyone do anything. Sheer absolute boredom.

[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, but like, pick up a guitar or something, anything.

[-] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 13 points 4 weeks ago

This is a creative endeavor too. That’s why.

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 3 points 4 weeks ago

Why being on Lemmy when we could pick a guitar?

[-] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago

You underestimate their power. Just imagine the dopamine rush after you did this

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 5 points 4 weeks ago

Bet the person who did it has ADHD and got into hyperfocus mode on a silly "what if" idea and worked on this nonstop without taking a break to go pee, much less eat or hydrate

[-] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 weeks ago

Neat. Never gonna do this to my deck, but neat.

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 7 points 4 weeks ago

That's one way to publish an iOS app via Xcode if you don't have a Mac I guess

[-] jaxxed@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Ouch, this one brings back bad memories. How about just signing mac binaries/packages.

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

No thanks I don't wanna do that again

[-] ashitaka@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

I’d certainly try loading it up while docked. Useful if you’re dipping your toes into the MacOS experience or just need it running on some hardware for a project/testing an app.

[-] bamboo@lemm.ee 2 points 4 weeks ago

Seems insanely impractical to do this for those purposes. It is possible to run macOS in a VM, which is going to be way better for testing things if you don’t have access to anything better.

[-] ashitaka@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

If you need to test something physical without a virtualization layer getting in the way, it would be great.

End of the day, there’s better ways to achieve MacOS access for sure. But it’s always great when something that starts out “meh” morphs into something unexpected. Who knows what cool things could come from this, especially since most of the Steam Decks would be mostly standardized on their hardware, allowing for dedicated tweaks specific to the platform instead of keeping it more generic when virtualized.

[-] accideath@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Would GPU acceleration even work though? Haven’t been hackintoshing in a while, but I remember AMD APUs not working. And without acceleration it’s not exactly a great experience…

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

Sadly, the article doesn’t go as deep as I wanted, but there is written, that the HW of the deck is perfect fit for macOS exactly because of the GPU used

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 4 weeks ago

So... Can it do gaming?

this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2024
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