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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: 0.022s | 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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pjmlp ◴[11 Oct 24 06:40 UTC] No.41806862[source]▶
Steam Deck was made possible by the plethora of the Windows games developer market and Proton.

Most of the studios that own those games, and target POSIX like OSes on mobile phones and game consoles, are yet to bother with GNU/Linux versions for SteamOS.

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1. freedomben ◴[11 Oct 24 13:33 UTC] No.41809358{3}[source]▶
You are right that many developers don't care and haven't bothered with Linux, but one reason for optimism is that this seems to be changing. Just looking through the list of native Linux games today compared to what it was like a year or 2 years ago, there are a lot more options. I was looking through the list of Linux games on Gog, and it is likewise in a much better position than it was prior. I think there is much reason for optimism!!
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2. grahamj ◴[11 Oct 24 19:09 UTC] No.41812494[source]▶
“There is now sufficient reason for greater optimism”

- Automated Personnel Unit 3947