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[–] n3cr0@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The thing that suprises me in the headline: You can actually run steam and games on macOS?

[–] totallynotfbi@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Well, you COULD, but very few companies port now due to Apple refusing to update their OpenGL drivers in favor of Metal. Nowadays it's a bit better, with MoltenVK providing Vulkan support, but you're still mostly limited to Apple Arcade games and emulators for your gaming needs

[–] havokdj@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

MacOS still has horrible support for wine. Linux's implementation of proton has become so good, that r/wine_gaming essentially has become nothing but MacOS helpdesk tickets now!

[–] Skepticpunk@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah. There was a whale event in TF2 back when it was ported where you got Apple earbuds ingame if you played the Mac port during a certain timeframe.

[–] 6daemonbag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

Since maybe 2010? That's when I first played portal and it was on a Mac.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The thing that suprises me in the headline: You can actually run steam and games on macOS?

Steam on my Mac is merely an updater for Krita.

[–] StarkillerX42@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago
  1. No

  2. You will be unable to read bullet #1 without using Apple's undocumented, unversioned mystery Apple Silicon translator that "Just works" *

* it does not, in fact, "just work"