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Easy fix. Apple can just stop breaking compatibility and partner with Valve to port Proton support to Mac.

But they wont do it because they want to push their own walled garden. And obviously no one will support it because macOS market share is smaller than Linux market share.

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>macOS market share is smaller than Linux market share

Not true? macOS has like 12-14% and Linux 3-4%

A very big portion of that is corporate.

I have a macbook home, the one issued by my employer. My personal laptop runs Linux.

If you check Steam hardware survey you'll see Linux market sgare is 3% against macOS 2%. This is what matter for game studios.

That's because it makes no sense to use Steam on macOS because there are nearly no compatible games and Steam itself only has an ARM version on Beta and the Intel version is unusably slow. Overall a catch-22 situation though.

Its not like every single Linux PC have Steam installed either. And if you run Steam client under Wine / Crossover it able to properly detect real platform.

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