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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Maybe someday it'll be "You want to game on Apple hardware? Use Linux".

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[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 8 points 9 months ago

Well, it is already like that for x86 Macs. Once Asahi gets a solid Vulkan driver, this could also extend to the ARM Macs. Linux has been far more viable for gaming that MacOS for a while now. The lack of Vulkan and 32bit support in modern MacOS has been crippling for Wine/Proton, though it's gotten better thanks to Wine 9.0 and MoltenVK.