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    i hate that it's very often like this (sh.itjust.works)
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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    Windows kind of has that too, with all the .MSI, .exe, .msix and all the appxpackages and how almost none of that works out of the box anymore because you'd otherwise be able to install another browser without opening edge once

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I’m a Mac user, so they made it as simple as possible for our simple brains. That said, no old 32bit Steam games for me ☹️

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    Yeah, Valve sucks with the "we're not rewriting this for 64 bit because there's no benefit" stance. It's a pain in the ass to use on Linux because you have to have the 32 bit counterpart of everything it uses alongside the 64 bit counterpart that literally everything else uses. You would think they would finally decide to rewrite it since they're a major Linux contributor, and their handheld runs Linux.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Fortunately, using a neat tool called Whisky, I’m able to install the Windows Steam client, from which I can download and play the Portal games, because they’re proper. But that’s M1/2 only.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Since you mentioned you've never used Linux, you may find it amusing that similar windows compatibility software exists for Linux and is called Wine. Whisky and Wine.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, Wine is a thing on Mac too. Never really dug too far into it though. Whisky is easy to use though.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

    Whisky is just a Wine wrapper. It's still Wine under the hood.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

    Nice, a lot of the games work out of the box with the Linux client, you just need to enable support for unsupported games for Proton on the Steam settings.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

    last time I used Mac, I still need to go online and grab the dmg file (or whatever the extension of the file is) myself, since most app is not avaliable in the app store, like jetbrains app and adobe apps.

    Is it still the case?

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, that’s most often the case. I very rarely install from the App Store unless the software I’m after has a link on their site.