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> But Valve should be the one making Proton compatible with Macs Why on earth would they do that? That gives them absolutely no competitive advantage. Linux al
by happymellon 4y ago
> But Valve should be the one making Proton compatible with Macs
Why on earth would they do that? That gives them absolutely no competitive advantage. Linux allows them to build Steam Machines and Decks. MacOS gives them nothing.
Proton uses Wine and translates DirectX calls to Vulkan when required. Apple chose to be hostile to Vulkan so the current project has different requirements anyway.
- deergomoo 4y ago> MacOS gives them nothing It increases Steam sales which increases their profits. Probably not by a great deal, but gaming on Mac is a bit of a chicken and egg situation. No-one does it because it sucks, and it sucks because no-one does it.
- happymellon 4y ago> It increases Steam sales I would need a citation on that. These folks already purchased a Mac, so they went in already knowing that they are never going to actually play games on it so it couldn't have been a priority.