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Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 3 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

I agree with you that it's great for work. I got a MacBook with Apple silicon for $2.5k and it's been great. The games isn't that big a deal because A) i have a desktop computer with Linux and can run 98% of games just fine and B) with parallels you can run a lot of Windows games on Mac. Darkest Dungeon for example I play through that

My main complaint is I can't install Linux on the laptop yet. I know Asahi Linux is working on it but it's not quite there. It'd be like putting an old engine in a sports car. So I'm stuck with MacOS for now. Not ideal but better than Windows.

Having said all that, a PS5 is not a proper replacement for a PC. Most of the games I play are all strategy games.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    why do you want to install linux on a macbook?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    MacOS is kind of annoying. Linux gives you a lot more control over the system and I sort of like to micromanage the OS. Still, there are workarounds for a lot of stuff. For example I found a tiling window manager for MacOS.

    Ultimately still much better than Windows. MacOS and Linux are actually very similar. There's brew, a package manager. I have a nice terminal with fish shell. I copied over my neovim config & plug-ins. On the terminal it's hard to tell most of the time whether you're using MacOS or Linux.

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