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Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare
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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.
I'm talking about the whole period of like 2010 to about 2018.
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 .
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
And now Rosetta is getting deprecated in the next release too!