Like Valve's Proton compatibility layer for Steam Deck, Apple has made the Game Porting Toolkit to let Windows games run on macOS. In this video, Oliver Mack...

Gaming on a Mac might be a reality in the next major update as they’ve added a “Game Porting Toolkit” that’s very similar to Linux’s Proton. It allows you to play Windows games on MacOS, with… Pretty good results, actually!

Seems like Mac is getting very serious about taking market share from Windows.

  • moosh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been a Apple MBP owner since 2008 and a Mac user as far back as I can remember. The argument that macs can’t game always ticked me off because if you had any of the pro models (e.g. a dedicated gpu), from a hardware perspective this demonstrably wasn’t true. Install boot camp and a copy of windows and games ran without barrier. It’s just that most developers didn’t produce games to run natively on Mac so therefore gamers didn’t buy macs. Ergo “can’t”game on a Mac.

    • Biberkopf@feddit.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Hm. Installing a separate OS is not exactly painless, is it? I mean, I did the same, but just because you could use a pogo stick to get from a to b doesn’t make it a proper form of transportation.

      And the whole Apple silicone story makes this point moot anyway. I am very happy that the toolkit exists. Hopefully we see a healthy and easier to use open source tool chain soon (think Lutris like tools) and more native ports down the line.

      • moosh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I’ll give you that, you had to upgrade the whole box. Doesn’t change the fact that if you had one with a decent gpu that you could still game with it.

        • The_Mixer_Dude@vlemmy.netEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Nobody that is computer hardware centric is going to take interest in buying an Apple computer though. So it will never end up in their hands to begin with