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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: 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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tonyhart7 ◴[11 Oct 24 06:13 UTC] No.41806717[source]▶
or you know, just release a game on native linux build
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1. pmarreck ◴[11 Oct 24 22:53 UTC] No.41814667[source]▶
The reason why this isn't more prevalent is twofold

1) everything standardized, like it or not (note: I do not), on the Windows API, and it has remained relatively stable, which is important because

2) Linux-native games I've had, have become un-executable over time without semi-regular maintenance, and Windows games running on whatever version of Proton they best work with do not have that drawback