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Re:Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux by novok on Saturday September 11, 2021 @04:09PM (#28495427)
For me, when I've tried old valve native games on a 2018 macbook pro 15" with a GPU on macOS, I still get these stutters in input and other small things that happen that I don't get on even 10 year old gaming PCs today that were mid-tier back then. Those stutters and such make the game frustrating and I perform worse during key moments, which makes me go back to my gaming PC.

I can see how something would be rated 'platinum' for linux still be unacceptable in those ways. If your playing a single player game I can see how it's ok, but not for twitchy multiplayer games like MOBAs or FPSs.

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Re:Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux by easton on Saturday September 11, 2021 @05:22PM (#28496171)
> macOS

Due to macOS not supporting Vulkan and other stuff required for Proton, it's been on the backburner for support from Valve for a while. Portal 2 can't even run on macOS anymore since it is 32-bit only. Most games work how they would on Windows when running under Proton vs a native port, you should try it on a Linux machine when you have time.

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Re:Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux by BeefWellington on Saturday September 11, 2021 @07:49PM (#28497206)
As the other commenter noted, MacOS is not Linux.

You should give it a go (even on the same hardware) on Linux.

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