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>>simjue+(OP)
How's proton support nowadays? The new M2 15-inch macbook Air looks really appealing

>>POiNTx+vJ
Proton is a wrapper/tweaks to wine, right? Thus x86-64 windows games can run on x86-64 linux. Thus the steam deck and many happy linux gamers. Apparently it's good enough to run a large majority of steam games, I believe I remember something like 90+% of the top 50 games on steam.

I don't think it helps at all with running x86-64 code on arm.

>>sliken+NB1
For running x86-64 on arm you have FEX. You can combine FEX with wine to run standard steam games on Asahi linux.

>>rowanG+nQ1
Wow, excellent. I'm trying to justify replacing a 2015 desktop with either a mac studio or a ryzen/zen4 desktop. I'm not a gamer, but do occasionally fire up steam to play something old like Xcom 2 or Majesty.

Knowing that at least some x86-64 steam games could work is promising, thanks.

For me it all comes down to the extra memory bandwidth.

A recent metal port of llama is pretty tempting and being able to run GPU accelerated LLMs with greater than 16GB (mid range GPUs) or 24GB (highend/RTX 4090) on the mac studio is interesting. $3,600 (for 96GB ram) interesting, not so sure.