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Doing some quick searching around. I know there is Crossover, Wine technically works on Mac from what I can tell also. So not sure if there is a technical reas
by nerdjon 5y ago
Doing some quick searching around.
I know there is Crossover, Wine technically works on Mac from what I can tell also. So not sure if there is a technical reason Proton couldn't work on Mac other than just not building it.
Apple does talk a lot about gaming now on the iPhone and iPad, I would love to see them talk about it more on Mac (especially with how powerful these are) and maybe work with Proton like Steam is for the Steam Deck.
- xrisk 5y agoCrossover is proprietary. Pure Wine cannot run x86 apps on ARM if I understand correctly.
- heavyset_go 5y agoIt can't, but if you use Linux and binfmt_misc, you can set it up so that x86 Windows apps run seamlessly on ARM.
- chaosharmonic 5y agoProton also depends on DXVK, an additional translation layer that specifically bridges the Windows graphics APIs to Vulkan (as opposed to WINE handling its system calls in a general sense). Meanwhile, newer versions of macOS (and the M1 that runs the ARM builds in particular) don't use Vulkan at all, opting for Metal instead.