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What are the odds of Proton helping to improve Mac gaming?

Will those improvements to Wine trickle through to the Mac eventually or they too linux-specific ? (I'm not that up-to-date with all the graphics APIs they all have nowadays, and I assume that's a factor)

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> Proton does not work natively on macOS, end of story. macOS is missing several APIs to make this support viable:

> eventfd syscall is Linux-specific, without good alternative on macOS

> Apple does not support Vulkan, which is needed for DXVK

> Apple deprecated OpenGL support, which is needed for WineD3D

> macOS is missing support for Python 3 OOTB

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/gt3fat/proton...

Proton's big tech under the hood is DXVK which translates DirectX calls to Vulkan. If MacOS were to add Vulkan support it probably could benefit from Proton. But Apple doesn't seem to care about Vulkan or modern graphics APIs in general.

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