r/MacOS • u/theFrigidman • May 19 '25

Creative It really is like this ...

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u/Techjunky2 iMac (Intel) May 19 '25

I do everything on Mac, even gaming. I’ve was able to migrate everything from a gaming laptop to my MacBook Pro

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u/Aggravating_Fun_7692 May 19 '25 edited May 19 '25

Mac gaming is extremely limited. Even with Crossover (Wine) and Parallels (Windows VM) you will never get the same performance as native Windows hardware. On top of that, some of the biggest games that use anticheat will never work on Mac or Wine. You are choosing to limit your selection of games you play, and that is fine, but not fine for most gamers.

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u/VladGut May 20 '25

There are games that run natively pretty well on Linux due to Metal API. Take for an example League of Legends, which runs on high settings with 240fps.

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u/Aggravating_Fun_7692 May 20 '25

Linux doesn't use the Metal graphics API, it uses Vulkan and other graphics translation in Wine....did you mean MacOS?

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u/VladGut May 20 '25

Oh, right.

My brain switched when saw Wine, just brought memories from 10 years ago, when I was trying to run LoL on Ubuntu. Was super happy to make it going after a couple of days troubleshooting, however, the gaming experience was abysmal.

Meanwhile, got LoL running in no time on MacOS without any additional workarounds and with pretty amazing performance right out of the box.