Games are technically run inside a virtual machine because of differences in how Apple Silicon and x86 systems address memory—Apple’s systems use 16 KB memory pages, while x86 systems use 4 KB pages, something that causes issues for Asahi and some other Arm Linux distros on a regular basis and a gap that the VM bridges.
Rosenzweig’s post shows off screenshots of Control, Fallout 4, The Witcher 3, Ghostrunner, Cyberpunk 2077, Portal 2, and Hollow Knight, though as she notes, most of these games won’t run at anywhere near 60 frames per second yet.
“Correctness comes first. Performance improves next,” she writes.
Bill Gates has made anti-knowledge sharing his lifelong legacy, from crushing OpenGL by bribing game developers not to build in it, to pushing the US gov’t to give away COVID vaccines to poor countries rather than making the data available so they could make their own. His influence in the industry towards proprietary and closed source code is unmatched. Like, we all love the nerd jumping over the computer with the goofy smile but that dude is a piece of shit.
My point was that if we (you!) were able to level the windows/Linux gaming playing field before he died, that would make him mad, and make me happy.
I’m not a dev but I do play games on Linux. Also what games does Apple even have? Most if not all are for Windows and some are only for consoles
I’m not sure tbh – I use a mbp for work, but if I’m on it, I’m usually not gaming… That said, I bought a steam deck last summer and it’s amazing. I haven’t played a console or handheld in like 15 years so my thumbs are weak and flimsy… but spending a summer evening out on the stoop with the steam deck while watching my kids run around like kids… doesn’t get much better than that.