Is it safe yet to start dunking on Apple people for representing a vanishing 1.~% gaming marketshare?

Mac is at about the same level as non-Deck desktop Linux, so not yet.

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It would be better if both Linux & Mac were above, say, 5%, too encourage multiplatform development, but Apple gonna Apple.

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I enjoyed the demo from before the name change. I'm quite looking forward to it if they can pull it off.

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In the last month I've played The Raven, The Abandoned Planet, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Framed, Wheel World, The Pale Beyond, and Hades. I also started The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker, but that's something I'm playing with my other half and it's difficult to find times when we're both available and both in the mood.

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I've decided to pick up Old World, Seedlings, Dustborn and Murdered: Soul Suspect.

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The other half's been Family Sharing my copy of Megaquarium, so I'll be picking up the last expansion pack for that. I don't know what I'll be getting for me or the little one yet.

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For all other Linux systems from PCs to different handhelds, you'll want to stick with Proton.

That's not really the take away. You can run the native build, but you shouldn't expect support. They aren't supporting running the Windows version through Proton, either.

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!!! But be careful, Steam must not already be running for this to work. If this is the case, you must first exit Steam, then restart it by double-clicking on the game icon !!!

You should be able to have taskset -c 0,1,2,3 %command% as the game's launch options in its Properties to have it apply just for that game.

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However, porting a game to Linux comes at a cost and unfortunately some publishers, only thinking about profits, give up on offering us native games under Linux to increase their profit margins which are already extremely high ;-(

The reason I buy native Linux games at full price but only buy Windows games at a steep discount is to pay for that support. My one wallet won't make a huge difference in the grand scheme of things, but it is putting my money where my mouth is.

FWIW, the introduction of Proton didn't decrease the proportion of games on Steam that have native builds - that was on the decline since the failure of the Steam Machines. It did kill the third-party porting market, though. The thing that will bring the proportion back up is a bigger more lucrative market, so developers won't want to risk offloading support of their game to Valve.

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I guess there's a workaround for this restriction, for the time the native version is ready?

Probably steamdeck=1.

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However, it seems like the developer Larian Studios are working on a Native Linux version specifically for the Steam Deck, which you can see in the depots on SteamDB with a Native Linux version set for Steam Deck only (if a depot is set for Steam Deck it's not available on Desktop Linux).

It's a shame they've chosen to do that. The desktop Linux market is significantly bigger than the Deck market.

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