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This is so cool! I am genuinely happy that through this I barely ever had to boot up windows anymore when I still had my gaming PC. I wish we could have something similar on Mac. I tried GPTK and Whiskey before but a bunch of my steam games that flawlessly worked on Proton won’t even start and if they do there is a fair chance they random crash and have unacceptable performance.

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Yes, I'm doing the same ... Steam on Linux all the way and Windows has been wiped. Couldn't be happier.

We have a mostly MacOS household and I couldn't agree more. Even for games that work on MacOS, compatibility and FPS drops are major problems. It's funny because Wine always had "MacOS support", but it seems second class compared to Linux

No reason why it wouldn't be second or even lower class. That walled garden OS is slightly better than Windows but Linux (mainly arch, debian based) is way ahead in every way

Proton is absolutely amazing and everything has worked for me, some older badly made games haven't had ideal performance but with latest Proton even some of them have improved massively. Going from ~120 to stable locked 500FPS as expected. Soon, if not yet, the games will run better with Proton on Linux than natively on Windows, at least with AMD.

Arch and Debian based systems aren't further than RPM based distros, whatever they use in SUSE or Nix(OS). Stay factual

The solution for Mac is called „have a separate Windows ITX machine on the shelf and Steam Remote Stream the games to your MacBook“.

Works reasonably well on a fast wifi.

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