Appearently more people than Linux. I assume people who just want to be superior with status and money or just straight up hate Windows/Microsoft and don’t know anything else. Or they think Apple is the solution… i really don’t know.
Because people use their computers for more than just gaming, and there are a lot of Macs out there. I have Steam installed on my MacBook, and I can’t remember the last time I played a game on it.
Eh, I use Steam occasionally on my macbook, and it works reasonably well for my intended use: taking breaks at work. I didn’t choose to have a Mac, that’s just standard issue for my team, but my boss is cool with me running Steam games on it from time to time provided I get my work done.
However, games just don’t run well on macOS, even with official support. The CPU just isn’t as powerful as my desktop, so I can’t play heavy strategy games, and the GPU isn’t much to write home about, so the few graphics-intensive games are out too. So I mostly play casual and story-heavy games on it, but only like once every other week or so.
99% of my gaming is on my Steam Deck or my Linux desktop, I only use macOS for a small game here and there (usually Risk or a visual novel or something).
Yup, I play a few on my work laptop (not my choice of hardware/software). A lot of stuff doesn’t work, but as an occasional time-waster when I’m taking a break, it works okay.
I mostly just play quick Risk matches, but there’s an okay selection of games. It basically feels like Steam on Linux back when they first launched the Linux client before Proton a thing. It kinda sucks, but there’s enough selection for what I need it for.
These days I just keep my Steam Deck at my desk and play games that way instead. But before I got my Steam Deck, I played natively on macOS.
Depending on what games you played, mac was a decent alternative for gaming. Blizzard treated mac as a first class platform for many years, indie games using multi platform engines often targeted it, and porting studios like aspyr would bring over a few big titles here and there.
Linux was in a similar boat before proton really opened things up, but with even less support than mac from game devs.
That’s easy, just change the boot order so it defaults to Linux. If it’s a pain to boot into Windows, you’ll use it less and naturally replace your usage with Linux.
Try it for a week or two, you probably won’t feel the need to go back. Make the switch today.
I haven’t had any issues accessing NTFS from Linux, though running applications in Linux from NTFS is not a recipe for success. Only share data across OSes and everything should be fine.
Nah still doesn’t work, lots of errors and poor performance, but that’s probably because my OS is manjaro. I’m definetly going to switch to another distro, but don’t know which one
I really like openSUSE Tumbleweed, it basically feels like a polished rolling release.
But what exactly are you trying to do? If you’re using Steam, it just works. You can even add non-Steam games to Steam and use Proton with it. If you can’t figure it out, post the issues you run into and surely someone will lend some tips.
Despite what the OP of this thread said, I use proton through Lutris. I haven’t used any other tool for this yet, though I hear heroic games launcher is good too.
I’m not looking at it right now, but on Lutris you can add a new game, say it should run under wine, and then pick one of the versions of wine with proton.
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