I'd argue that it may come to that, given the poor availability of (steam) games for the macos platform. And when it is available, you may end up with a disclaimer that it may not run anyway.
If the game relies on 32bit libraries, IIRC macos dropped the support for those? And there's a lot of games that rely on 32bit.
So if one really cannot play 32bit games on macos then yeah. If the game doesn't do anything fancy with OpenGL, and is using OpenGL, then I think that it'll run great.
So how does that work given that most Steam games are x86/x64 and the M2 is an ARM processor? Does it emulate an x86 CPU? Isn't that slow, given that it's an entirely different architecture, or is there some kind of secret sauce?
Emulation.
Definitely going to incur a performance hit relative to native code, but in principle it could be perfectly good. It's not like the GPU is running x86 code in the first place. On macOS, Apple provides Rosetta to run x86 Mac apps, and it's very, very good. Not sure how FEX compares.
I wanna do Mesa because of Lina
The brain however does not want to cooperate (it wants to defrag)
I have no idea what asahi linux is and at that point I am to afraid to ask
Asahi means “rising sun” in Japanese, and it is also the name of an apple cultivar. 旭りんご (asahi ringo) is what we know as the McIntosh Apple, the apple variety that gave the Mac its name.
If you're thinking what I'm thinking, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with beer.
No, lead dev is marcan. Asahi Lina is a vtuber who had reverse-engineered Apple GPU and wrote the driver for it (in tandem with Alyssa Rosenzweig)
They are both on Mastodon. Lina just posted an updated list of games, there's a ton of them
Asahi Linux is the "have linux run on apple M series CPUs" project
The Asahi team never fails to impress. You can support the project at their Patreon. You don't need to care about Apple hardware to see the value in the work they're doing getting ported over to ARM PCs. Who knows? You might be donating to the health of your preferred distro on a device you will own down the road.
