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Same. It's a shame that Steam is purely coded for x86/amd64 and doesn't try to use either of these tools on ARM.

I think that's a bit harsh of a criticism.

Up until very recently gaming on ARM was a non-starter. Even today, majority of the Steam library probably cannot run on ARM even if they tried.

We can't dig Valve here, especially given the impressive amount of work they've already plowed into gaming on Linux in general.

To abuse a meme I find funny - "let [Valve] cook".

Even if Steam could run on ARM my outsider’s understanding is that essentially nobody codes to the Apple GPU system. So the number of compatible games would be extremely limited.

The Asahi Linux team recently completed an OpenGL 3.1-compliant driver for Apple's ARM-based Macs, and is now working on a Vulkan-compliant driver, so hopefully that will change in a year.

The only OpenGL 3.1 compliant driver iirc.

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