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[–] UnaSolaEstrellaLibre@lemmy.world 47 points 2 years ago (6 children)

And yet some developers decide to pour over resources to make a MacOS native port over a Linux port

[–] faho@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A mac port gets you mac users.

A linux port barely gets you more linux users because proton exists.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

A mac port gets you mac users.

A linux port barely gets you more linux users because proton exists.

Apple's new porting helper is nothing but Wine + D3D to Metal wrapper + Rosetta x86 emulation.

[–] atyaz@reddthat.com 14 points 2 years ago

I use both and I can tell you that is rare. Mac gaming is trash.

[–] TheCraiggers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, they probably use Macs.

[–] Audbol@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Quick search shows only like 30 of developers as a whole use Mac's and I'm sure share is lower there because I know plenty of devs using macbooks that are running Linux or Windows. If we are talking game developers as a whole then that percentage of osx devs is far far smaller than the general usage. Windows using devs still dominate as a whole, Linux is not far behind, MacOS is a very vocal yet, smaller in reality group.

[–] Its_Always_420@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

We don't bother with Linux ports anymore, instead they just added directX and win32 application support to Linux so it can just run the native Windows application.

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

People who buy Macs probably have money and are willing to spend it.