YouTuber ETA Prime has tested PC games on an Apple MacBook Pro with the Apple M4 Max. This was made possible thanks to an ARM64 build of SteamOS running on macOS, courtesy of a new GitHub project titled "FX Steam Launcher".
Among everything else, it’s kinda cool that we’re inching ever closer to a world operating systems don’t really matter any more. I mean, sure, this is literally running a virtual OS inside macOS, but I feel that it’s only a matter of time before that VM layer isn’t necessary, and that software will run on whatever hardware you have, as long as the hardware is up to the task.
I mean, all computers are Turing complete von Neumann machines. Any software can run on any computer, and run well on a reasonably powerful computer. The only reason it doesn’t is because of greedy corporations.
Among everything else, it’s kinda cool that we’re inching ever closer to a world operating systems don’t really matter any more. I mean, sure, this is literally running a virtual OS inside macOS, but I feel that it’s only a matter of time before that VM layer isn’t necessary, and that software will run on whatever hardware you have, as long as the hardware is up to the task.
I mean, all computers are Turing complete von Neumann machines. Any software can run on any computer, and run well on a reasonably powerful computer. The only reason it doesn’t is because of greedy corporations.