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AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux

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944 points 6a74 | 3 comments | 10 Oct 24 14:16 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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lucasban ◴[11 Oct 24 13:51 UTC] No.41809493[source]▶
What do you mean Steam Deck 2 or 3 would be impossible?
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vundercind ◴[11 Oct 24 14:15 UTC] No.41809658{3}[source]▶
Steamdeck 3 being statistically impossible is a joke about Valve having an aversion to releasing a #3 of anything.

Half life 1, 2… hm.

Ok we’ll make three HL2 episodes to follow that up.

Ep I. Ep II. Uhhhh… and let’s stop there, just like forever I guess.

Portal 1. Portal 2.

Left4dead. L4D2.

Team Fortress. TF2.

Counterstrike. CS2. Oh shit we’re releasing a third one, we might have to use the number three finally, oh no… I’ve got it: CS:Go!

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jakogut ◴[11 Oct 24 15:10 UTC] No.41810182{4}[source]▶
Also, the successor to CS:Go is...Counter-Strike 2.
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1. vundercind ◴[11 Oct 24 16:07 UTC] No.41810735{5}[source]▶
Oh damn I got the order on those mixed up. Was probably thinking of CS Source.

Regardless, point stands: they hate the number 3.

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2. echoangle ◴[11 Oct 24 17:06 UTC] No.41811265[source]▶
They’re probably doing it on purpose as a joke at this point.
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3. jakogut ◴[11 Oct 24 18:02 UTC] No.41811716[source]▶
It would have to be, CS2 is the fourth major installment in the Counter-Strike franchise.

Then again, all kinds of companies take liberties with naming including numbers. Look at Windows 7 (12th major release), Windows 10 (successor to Windows 8), the game Battlefield 2 (third in the series), Battlefield 3 (three games after BF2), Battlefield 1 (after the release of BF4), etc.