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AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux

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944 points 6a74 | 2 comments | 10 Oct 24 14:16 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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spease ◴[10 Oct 24 16:29 UTC] No.41800525[source]▶
This is super cool.

So, wait, does this mean that gaming is better on Linux, on a Mac?

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ojdon ◴[10 Oct 24 18:45 UTC] No.41801984[source]▶
Yeah it has been for a while. The steam deck runs Linux out of the box.

Valve and open source devs have put a lot of effort over the years on projects like Photon which is a translation layer for Windows games.

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zdragnar ◴[10 Oct 24 19:41 UTC] No.41802696[source]▶
The question was "better on Linux on a Mac", meaning specifically Asahi Linux.

The correct answer is no, not yet anyway.

Linux running on x86 with proton is still the bee's knees for most games though.

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1. spease ◴[10 Oct 24 19:58 UTC] No.41802877{3}[source]▶
> on a Mac

Right. It sounds like the Asahi devs have implemented APIs which aren’t available under stock MacOS.

Back when I was actively developing for Freespace, we had a Linux port that had a better framerate than Windows (the game’s original platform).

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2. fl0id ◴[10 Oct 24 23:11 UTC] No.41804509[source]▶
Afaik they are emulating, which you can do on macOS too. Still great that it works with Linux