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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: 0.201s | 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. kbolino ◴[11 Oct 24 15:03 UTC] No.41810102[source]▶
Windows 7 was great and I'd love to go back. If I really had my druthers, Windows 2000 was peak and XP was just a vulgarized version of 2000.

However, it is Microsoft more than anyone else that has decided to stop supporting those operating systems. Windows XP does not have support for any modern version of TLS (only TLS 1.0). There's no good way to support a browser-based app like Steam on a platform that cannot natively provide a secure connection to a modern web server.

There is not such a hard reason to drop Windows 7 support (again, except that Microsoft no longer supports it) but there are security-relevant APIs that are only available starting in Windows 10 which means special patches would have to be maintained just for Steam on Windows 7 to continue working securely.