[bearjaws]

Mac accounts for 1.4% of users, which is 25% less than Linux...

That is actually more than I thought, but its clear without compatible games there is very little reason to install Steam.

Also, Apple only recently started to be more gaming friendly, so it's really not surprising they would try to port a 20 year old game.

[isametry]

(This is probably terribly obvious, but should be mentioned anyway: that's 1.4% Mac and 2.06% Linux users of Steam. Not users in general.)

[Kovah]

> without compatible games

About 30% of the games I own on Steam would run on my Mac. I think that's quite much for a platform that nobody likes to develop for. But to be fair, I have few mainstream games like CoD, LoL or whatever.

[Rohansi]

Are you estimating based on hardware capability? Probably - but even if devs put the work in to port their games to Mac they will all slowly drop out of compatibility. Many games stop being updated after a while and you can't expect everyone to put effort into maintaining compatibility with newer versions of macOS. There are so many games in my Steam library that can't be played on Mac anymore because they were built for 32-bit x86. Eventually Apple will nuke Rosetta and you'll further lose access to even more games.

[weaksauce]

steamdeck runs on linux so that should eventually make games on linux mostly compatible and maybe even one day make it so that pc gamers don't have to have windows at all... chicken and egg thing though