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AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux

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944 points 6a74 | 9 comments | 10 Oct 24 14:16 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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dcchambers ◴[10 Oct 24 19:31 UTC] No.41802586[source]▶
From a performance and technical perspective this is incredible. Well done!

It will never happen, but my dream is for the Asahi devs, Valve, and Apple to all get together to build out a cross-platform Proton to emulate and play games built for Windows on both x86 and ARM hardware running Linux.

A Steam Deck with the performance and power efficiency of an M-series ARM chip and the entire library of games that run on Proton is just...dreamy.

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1. rowanG077 ◴[10 Oct 24 20:05 UTC] No.41802950[source]▶
I'm not sure if you know. But Alyssa, the person who basically wrote almost the entire userspace opengl and vulkan driver, works at valve.
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2. dcchambers ◴[10 Oct 24 21:03 UTC] No.41803566[source]▶
Wow! I wasn't aware, but that actually gives me a ton of confidence that Valve isn't ignoring ARM with all of their Linux + Proton work.

Her output is incredible.

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3. inputError ◴[10 Oct 24 21:45 UTC] No.41803899[source]▶
Alyssa rules. We all love Alyssa.
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4. adastra22 ◴[11 Oct 24 04:11 UTC] No.41806035[source]▶
I hope they don’t ignore macOS. They could port proton to run on Metal + Rosetta and then Steam would support all running windows titles on macOS and Linux.

I recognize it’s a hell of an ask, but I think Alyssa could pull it off.

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5. pmarreck ◴[11 Oct 24 12:41 UTC] No.41808973{3}[source]▶
I'm a huge macOS fan but even I have to admit that gaming deserves to have a home on an open-source OS controlled by no one (which would be Linux in this case) and that Steam devoting effort to bring first-class gaming from Windows to macOS is like working to escape from the frying pan into the fire.
6. psd1 ◴[11 Oct 24 13:27 UTC] No.41809313[source]▶
I hope that she was working on Asahi full time at valve, because if she did all that while also holding down a day job then I might as well be soylent green.
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7. 1-more ◴[11 Oct 24 18:05 UTC] No.41811748{3}[source]▶
I see cats writing software _with hardly any documentation_ like this and my brain melts. Power level strictly monotonic, possibly exponential, and very very large. Bravissima!
8. jamiek88 ◴[11 Oct 24 20:19 UTC] No.41813314[source]▶
The 10x developer is real!

Sometimes you’ve just gotta tip your hat.

9. satvikpendem ◴[12 Oct 24 07:58 UTC] No.41817305{3}[source]▶
I use whisky which is WINE underneath to play games on macOS.

https://github.com/Whisky-App/Whisky