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I would love to see Apple go down the route of actually supporting modern OpenGL and Vulkan on their hardware. The hardware is amazing but forcing software to rely on Metal just holding it back especially when it comes to games.
Well, they sort of support Vulkan via a translation layer called MoltenVK. This is how the Dolphin emulator was able to get GameCube games running on M1, for example.
That's probably the most that Mac users will get, unfortunately - the only games that Apple will care about are the ones exclusive to their Apple Arcade service, which will therefore use the Metal API anyway...
I hope they do not. I wish they stay stupidly stubborn until it's too late.
They're a 3 trillion dollar company, they can stay stupidly stubborn longer than any of us can stay alive
Because people treat apple as if it's the pinnacle of design, performance, and usability. People who want to game on their hardware should have it so hard that they will take anything they can to make that possible on that hardware. If Linux becomes that thing that makes it all possible, so much so that it becomes common knowledge "if you want to game on a mac, install linux", then finally some fruit worshippers could possibly see what surrounds them instead of their myopic view of their fruit god.
It's never too late for a corporation of their size to wake up one day and decide "well, now there's some kind of a reason to make gaming on mac possible". I can only hope that if they're pushed to that, that linux is so far ahead that it becomes difficult to get back their followers. If by some miracle Valve decides to invest in making linux work on mac, there would be two giants in the game.
But only time will tell...
Mommay, a stranger on the internet insulted me! My feelings are so hurt.
Macs have a big user base, if you like it or not.
Apple supporting Vulkan or not supporting it will not change a thing about that.
Developers support platforms where the users are. Having good support for Vulkan on Macs would make their life easier.
I fail to see how that's a bad thing. Apple not supporting Vulkan won't drive the average user to install Linux as they don't know what it even is.