AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux

Post by grahamj » Fri, Oct 11, 2024, 7:09 PM UTC

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Steam Deck was made possible by the plethora of the Windows games developer market and Proton. Most of the studios that own those games, and target POSIX like OSes on mobile phones and game consoles, are yet to bother with GNU/Linux versions for SteamOS.

You are right that many developers don't care and haven't bothered with Linux, but one reason for optimism is that this seems to be changing. Just looking through the list of native Linux games today compared to what it was like a year or 2 years ago, there are a lot more options. I was looking through the list of Linux games on Gog, and it is likewise in a much better position than it was prior. I think there is muc…

Post by IntelMiner » Fri, Oct 11, 2024, 7:48 PM UTC

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You'd have to package FEX :D For the kind of person who wants to run NixOS on Apple Silicon or do Linux gaming on Apple Silicon in the first place, that's probably interesting and not too hard but if you're allergic to that, you might be able to figure something else out with Box64, which is already packaged in Nixpkgs x86_64 gaming on NixOS is of course well supported and has been for a long time. There's a 'native'…

we are talking about asahi linux. i think it is pretty clear that nixos isn’t supported like a first class citizen because you have to do a fair bit of work to make all of the more recent userspace fixes work on NixOS. i run NixOS Asahi so I know. it was easier when Arch was a first class citizen but the advice nowadays you get upon encountering a problem on Arch is to switch to Fedora

Post by jamiek88 » Fri, Oct 11, 2024, 8:19 PM UTC

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I'm not sure if you know. But Alyssa, the person who basically wrote almost the entire userspace opengl and vulkan driver, works at valve.

I hope that she was working on Asahi full time at valve, because if she did all that while also holding down a day job then I might as well be soylent green.

Post by seabrookmx » Fri, Oct 11, 2024, 9:07 PM UTC

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Likely because their engineers are more productive in C++? Modern C++ with move semantics is a lot more easy to reason about and memory safe than C99, IMO. Since it's a greenfield project, they didn't have to worry about the nasty baggage of legacy C++ spaghetti that kills most projects. Just because you prefer "simple" C99 doesn't mean they do :)

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Post by rowanG077 » Fri, Oct 11, 2024, 10:39 PM UTC

sylware wrote: post #344

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Likely because their engineers are more productive in C++? Modern C++ with move semantics is a lot more easy to reason about and memory safe than C99, IMO. Since it's a greenfield project, they didn't have to worry about the nasty baggage of legacy C++ spaghetti that kills most projects. Just because you prefer "simple" C99 doesn't mean they do :)

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