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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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[–] Zagorath@quokk.au 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

A decade ago things were looking really positive for the future of Mac gaming. It felt like more and more games were coming out supporting it. I'm not sure if their transition away from Intel has hindered it, or if it's something else, but it definitely seems to have stalled.

Plus, the move to Apple Silicon has killed the back-up option of Bootcamp. Or I assume it has, I've not been a Mac user since before the transition, when my ageing MBP died and I just found I didn't need any laptop to replace it.

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 3 points 20 hours 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 19 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 1 points 18 hours ago (1 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 .

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 hours ago (1 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 15 hours ago

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