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Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare
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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.
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.
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 bot too lazy.