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Steam is a ticking time bomb (www.spacebar.news)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Steam is still not updated to run natively on Apple Silicon-based Mac computers, nearly four years after Apple's transition away from Intel CPUs started. It's now a slow and clunky barrier to playing the games I own on my Mac computers—a far cry from the pro-consumer persona that Valve and Steam usually enjoy.

Kinda similar situation in linux where steam hasn't been updated to use wayland. It's flickery mess on nvidia hardware and a bit glitchy on intel and amd (like other electron/cef apps running under xwayland). Proton works great though.

[–] t0m5k1 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

As an ex nvidia and recent amd user on Linux, I'd say wayland isn't ready for gaming. X11 is still great, and wayland is the sand dunes of Linux in that they just move too fast for valve to adequately offer stable support. Also xwayland is really what's running most games, and that is just another layer.

Electron apps are shit and just a fancy chrome window get a real app or just use chrome --app=https://url.tld

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

All proton games are going to offer native Wayland pretty soon

[–] t0m5k1 1 points 2 months ago

Pretty soon being version 10/11+

People need to start being realistic.

It's gonna be a loong time before you fave game will run in native wayland.