Like Valve's Proton compatibility layer for Steam Deck, Apple has made the Game Porting Toolkit to let Windows games run on macOS. In this video, Oliver Mack...

Gaming on a Mac might be a reality in the next major update as they’ve added a “Game Porting Toolkit” that’s very similar to Linux’s Proton. It allows you to play Windows games on MacOS, with… Pretty good results, actually!

Seems like Mac is getting very serious about taking market share from Windows.

  • Biberkopf@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Hm. Installing a separate OS is not exactly painless, is it? I mean, I did the same, but just because you could use a pogo stick to get from a to b doesn’t make it a proper form of transportation.

    And the whole Apple silicone story makes this point moot anyway. I am very happy that the toolkit exists. Hopefully we see a healthy and easier to use open source tool chain soon (think Lutris like tools) and more native ports down the line.

    • moosh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It wasn’t painless but I didn’t find it too taxing either. Apple made the partioning process fairly straight forward and ever gave us the appropriate drivers to ge two does up and running. The most annoying part was waiting for windows to install the latest service pack.