Quoting: Liam Dawegraphics APIs used - Vulkan and Metal.

This is actually a reason to do it this way. It is much easier to translate from Vulkan to Metal than from D3D to Metal. There even exist MoltenVk.

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Quoting: ripper81358but i guess that most games run even better with proton than a native port nowadays. Another problem with the Feral ports has always been compatibility in multiplayermode

This is my question too. That said the port may well be better than proton. Also the reason they are doing it is that if you port to Mac then Linux port is about zero cost (their workflow is probably to port first to Linux as this is the easiest way to get rid of windows dependencies, and then port from Linux to Mac.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPWhich is one of the great strengths of Linux - it doesn't need to carry that extreme burden of having to support decades of legacy-code and programs.

Where the hell did you get this strange idea?
It's the exact opposite of what you are thinking: Linux does not break userspace! [External Link]

You are absolute right about the Kernel. It really never broke userspace. Also simple binary executables are just ELF executables, are independent of distro and do not break. But this is not the whole story. Libraries unfortunately do break especially desktop environment. People should really stop depending on desktop environment libraries like gnome.

This problem is actually getting better. Pipewire managed to not break Pulseaudio, Linux gaming is based on SDL, there is the idea of portals for applications to ask the desktop to do something natively to the desktop without being dependent on a desktop library that may break and so on. So linux is transforming to a trustworthy platform in this issue.

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I kind of understand the difficulty they have to do what they should do but at least they could easily allow no cross platform multiplayer.

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Quoting: EikeBut where would all those 32 bit games get their environment from?

All these games can use a compatibility (like steam linux runtime). All the good 64 bit native games should only use native libraries and no runtime at all.

Valve must clean the steam client and any junk can be thrown to compatibility.

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Please, Please!
Put a sd card and a microsd card slot! Why the hell this is not a thing on mini PCs?

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Interestingly, if you filter to Windows, the Steam Deck GPU doesn't even show up

An other way to look it is
total deck users: ~0.17%
linux deck users: ~1.27*0.1372 = 0.174%

So we can't actually measure windows deck users (total-linux) but this is a good thing, it means windows deck users are too few.

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It seems there is a BUG with trends about december.

December data do not exist when you are looking the trends. I hope this will be fixed and data won't be lost.

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from last December 0.78 to 1.11 it is +42%

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Quoting: EikeWindows 11 might play a role as well.

They already have more marketshare than linux :(

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