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> Apple also offers a D3D12 porting toolkit now

Now they do. After 5 years of people begging them for DXVK, Apple gives us... a downstream fork of DXVK retooled for Metal.

I really just feel bad for Mac owners. Like; you could be playing Apex Legends with us, but can't. Like I said, these changes to Asahi will likely make it easier than MacOS to play games on. Who would use MacOS for gaming when Steam Play works out-of-box on Linux? A masochist, I say.



I doubt anyone buys a Mac to install Asahi on it


We'll just have to see. Do you think that will still be true when compliant Vulkan 1.3 drivers exist, and Asahi users get to play anticheat-enabled online games?

I remember a lot of Mac users that paid for Bootcamp for this very purpose, back in the day. It might even be more appealing since Asahi is free.


I would. Apple hardware is the best in the world while their software is so and so.


I did. And it's the first laptop I'm happy with in terms of power.


Why not? The hardware is better than a Thinkpad or anything else I can think of. Only thing keeping me from running Asahi full time is battery/sleep. Hopefully they figure that out this year.




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