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AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux

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944 points 6a74 | 1 comments | 10 Oct 24 14:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.246s | source
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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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tapoxi ◴[10 Oct 24 20:03 UTC] No.41802934[source]▶
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2465907/arm-version-of-steam...
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sweeter ◴[10 Oct 24 23:27 UTC] No.41804609[source]▶
A lot of stuff like this shows up, they also have a fork of waydroid and box64. I think a lot of them are projects and a lot of them are just devs with a lot of agency who share the dream
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scheeseman486 ◴[11 Oct 24 05:22 UTC] No.41806431[source]▶
Steam Deck was made possible by their ongoing efforts to enable the play of most of their games catalog on any hardware platform that is computationally capable of running them, regardless of OS or architecture.

The end game for Valve isn't Steam Deck 2 or 3 (which is statistically impossible for Valve to produce), but for Steam to be on everything.

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reassembled ◴[11 Oct 24 11:47 UTC] No.41808624[source]▶
Everything except Windows 7 and XP that is.
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1. jchw ◴[11 Oct 24 12:42 UTC] No.41808978[source]▶
I believe Valve dropped official Windows 7 support in Steam because Chromium did and they weren't going to fork it.

I empathize if you don't like any version of Windows newer than 7 or XP, but it's time to let the dream of running them forever go. It's not weird when software doesn't support the 2009 version of an operating system anymore in 2024. If they never dropped support, it would be difficult to take advantage of improvements that occurred in the last 10 years, because we'd forever be stuck in baggage.

Of course when it's feasible everybody loves software that really never does drop support, like 7-zip, which I think happily still works on Win9x without KernelEx... but I'd rather 7-zip stopped having serious security issues than continued to work on old Windows versions.