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Linux has reached 2.32% in Steam Hardware Survey for May 2024 (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’m pleasantly surprised Linux is way ahead of OSX. This looks really good!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Hmm. What games are for Mac OS? I have never played a game on a mac ever. Not even seen what can be played.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Not many are officially supported, but there are a few. Baldur’s Gate 3 is one surprising example. Many Paradox games are also supported, like Cities Skylines. Stardew Valley, Terraria and Hades as well.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

At least chess:
https://i.imgur.com/jSJPJ1x.mp4

Source: https://archive.org/details/Computer1985_6

^/j^

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Love me some computer chronicles!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Not many indeed. There's a switch in your settings to only show you games for your designated OS, or there are symbols below the games' vignettes that tells you which OS is supported: win / mac / steam

Frustrating is famous games from the 32 bits era, where they would be available to Mac but work only on macos pre-10.14 and not from 10.15 when macos went fully 64bits. Which means on top of reduced availability, some of this availability would only work on a mac from 2010 or so.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can play windows games on mac with using a crossover (uses wine and some open source software)

Here is a demonstration

https://youtu.be/CBoKIFMnPvQ?si=8axV557SMMroF2co&t=533

But I don't think you would buy a mac for games

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

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