Oh just fuck off.

…are… you… fucking trolling?

Do you not know what a port is? Are you not aware that numerous modern game engines don’t even need to be ported, they just run on multiple platforms?

Macs being ARM based has FUCKING NOTHING TO DO with there being few games for the platform.

Apple has never courted game developers. They have never been about absolute gaming power. They’re about developers, media production, and general use audiences. They do not build gaming computers. Any gaming capability is ancillary to their actual business model.

If a developer doesn’t see a potential ROI on porting a game to Apple silicon, they won’t. It’s that simple.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/gettingstarted/mobile https://topgameslists.com/mobile-games-on-steam/ https://www.androidpolice.com/android-games-on-pc/

I could keep doing this. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of games on Steam that started on mobile.

Not that this matters because the entire fucking point is that NO, Macs aren’t “unable to run games because ARM” when almost all mobile games run on ARM and they get ported to non-ARM processors ALL THE FUCKING TIME.

Are Linux users just unable to think beyond what’s literally in front of them?

What the fuck does any of that have to do with running AAA games?

The Deck is not competing with consoles, genius. Unless you’re so stuck in early 2000’s fashion that you pants are so ginormously huge that you can fit a PS5 and TV in them.

Stay on topic or piss off.

So like 30+ years ago.

Kick them from Windows? You mean “piss off literally every game developer, publisher, and player to the point of antitrust lawsuits from multiple entities.”

But go on being literally insane with conspiracy horseshit.

I see no response. I assume I am correct. Feel free to stop talking.

Stabbing yourself in the dick with a knitting needle.

Standard Linux incel user blaming.

“Fun” story: Upgrading Debian once hosed my system so hard I needed to install a separate OS on another drive so I could copy over my data. An IT pro probably could have figured it out, but for whatever reason the upgrade decided that it really needed to take my hard drive and move it from /dev/sd1 to, I shit you not, /etc/home. No, I do not know why. No, I could not just move it back to /dev/sd1 because it tried to copy the entirety of itself into itself rather than just change a file location. I got to the Debian forum for help and just get the standard abusive incel fuckery in response.

I think that’s when I moved to SUSE for the first time. Way less shitty community.

It wasn’t a meme yet? So like… 30+ years ago?

It’s always hilarious when kids with no knowledge talk about Valve’s hardware. Like… none of it has ever been developed to make money. Steam makes so goddamn much money they’re literally just pissing around with R&D because it’s fun.

You mean like those AAA titles the fucking Switch can’t run?

That’s literally the only thing close to competition that the Deck has, and it skullfucks it in terms of horsepower.

Yeah! That thing almost nobody touches because it’s literally just there to run a proprietary storefront and act as a translation layer for games is totally going to win the desktop!

Just next year!

For the last twenty-five years or so.

What do you think mobile games run on?

When was the last time you read any source code for any software you use on a daily basis?

Do you read and understand the source code for every piece of software you use?

No?

Then STFU.

My nephew’s school has been using the same Chromebooks for at least the four years he’s been there.

How long do you expect them to last?

It’s funny how Linux is only Linux if it benefits Linux nerds but the moment someone points out that Android, Chrome, Steam Deck, anything with telemetry and Linux has telemetry all of a sudden it’s not “really Linux” anymore.

It really is Schrodinger’s OS.

I don’t use the mouse itself (it’s hell for my RSI) but do use the keyboard and trackpad. I just have a Lightning cable hooked up to the computer and maybe once a week I’ll plug it into one or the other before I go to bed.

It’s really no different from a phone, smart watch, laptop, tablet, MPC Live, SMG with LiPO, Tesla Roadster, or anything else with batteries that die really quickly. Is the location of the port a dumb wank exercise in “design” over function? Yes, but the whole thing is and that’s the least of its problems. lol

Totally agreed. I’m just seeing far too many people here and elsewhere hailing this as some kind of massive win “FOR LINUX” when in reality it’s a massive win for “THE STEAM DECK.”