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by femboy 1216 days ago
is it just me or is it just Unusable on macOS? for a few years now
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On my M1 MBA, it's sluggish but still usable. Definitely worse than on Windows. It's probably the worst out of the few Rosetta apps I have. It's a little funny. The Steam client performs worse than any of my Mac games that are also using Rosetta. A simple client falls over more than a game which is (visually at least) doing much more complicated things.
IIRC Steam client uses Chromium Embedded Framework. I imagine it'll be as slow as other Chromium (or Electron) apps running under Rosetta.
Steam works fine on my M1.