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I wonder if Microsoft does this because gaming has been one of the biggest differentiators for their OS. That's an advantage that is rapidly fading and they want to hold onto it as long as possible.


Heh, possibly. My brother won’t touch a PC game unless it runs on Steam Proton in Linux.


Fading? Vs. Linux, maybe. Mac OS is still a bad platform for games.


Not sure if that stance is going to be relevant much longer. I recall Apple releasing a new framework that actually had some substance during their last keynote. I think Linus did a segment, they were running cyberpunk on Mac at 30FPS, not ideal sure, but it's a big step up.

https://developer.apple.com/games/


I don't know. I can hope for the best, but when they killed 32-bit apps and with them a ton of classic games, I gave up on Apple.


Yeah I meant vs. linux. True that it should continue to be a motivator for potential Mac switchers.




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