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Re:Linux overtakes Mac as Steam's second-most used OS, thank... by KerrAvon on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @04:23PM (#37313438)
Yes. Steam is more or less a good Mac citizen aside from not being fully Apple Silicon native. But, as previously stated, the entire catalog was 32-bit and it evaporated overnight when Catalina ended support for 32-bit executables.
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Re:Linux overtakes Mac as Steam's second-most used OS, thank... by wlesieutre on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @05:43PM (#37314530)
Unfortunate that everything was built for 32-bit, there was literally one year worth of 32-bit Intel Macs before the Core 2 Duo came out.
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Re:Linux overtakes Mac as Steam's second-most used OS, thank... by sumuyuda on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @03:12AM (#37318651)
I think the reason is that the 32bit games were first developed as 32bit for Windows. When porting it over to Mac, switching to 64bit would be a big amount of work that wasn’t needed.
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