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Steam Is Coming to ARM64 as Ubuntu Opens Testing via Snap
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this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2026
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Steam has been in ARM64 — on the Mac. Nice to see Linux getting in on the fun as traditional PCs transition to the architecture.
Now go the other way and bring proton to Mac so we can all give Windows the finger.
That's not gonna happen. Since Mac uses a different kernel, userspace and even their own proprietary graphics API, bringing Proton to Mac would take comparable effort to developing it for Linux. That's not worth it given the small amount of Apple gamers, which is self-inflicted thanks to many bad decisions Apple has made.
There's also the whole walled garden aspect. Getting away from Windows, just to lock yourself into the next closed ecosystem, is a terrible play. If Valve spent their efforts on this instead of focusing on improving Linux gaming, it would tarnish their image in many people's eyes.
You can run MoltenVK to convert vulkan calls to metal, and if you can stack DXVK on top of that, now with FEX to bring x86 over and the existing wine for Mac we have everything we need to run windows games badly on a Mac.
Apple already has a proton alternative. It’s called their game porting toolkit.
Yes, but it’s aimed at developers. Regular users can’t just load a windows game up and run it.
We have Crossover, which is paid, and isn’t cheap. The silver lining is that they donate/contribute to WINE. So it seems like an ethical purchase at least.