Gaming Mode by Sonoma vs Linux + Steam + Proton

[gustavopi]

Today, there is a lot of cool games that will run in your PC or Mac basically trought three different ways:

• Windows: there is always a Windows port, that will run at 120 fps that you can´t distinguish from 60 fps, unstable and unsafe! I like Windows 10+, by, man, is a terrible product, it is a mess of stuff that barelly run... maybe somday, some sunny day...
• macOS: probably won´t have a port, and even when do have, poor support, but macOS is still the best OS in the market, overall.
• Linux + Steam + Proton: you can´t almost always found your game in Steam and it will run in Linux in your PC or Mac by Proton with good and stable fps, maybe even better than native Windows. Linux is still a p* in the a* but it is fast and stable, man, it's heaven when polished.

I would like to hear opinions from mac owners and macOS enthuiasts: Can Sonoma with game mode change this game?

Personally, I have My Mac and my PC game have Linux partitions that I use to play games. I am not an expert, but also not noobie, just following succesful path. I know there is Crossover for Mac, but is not cheap solution, I wish to compare "free" solutions.a

 

[forever_music]

Valve and the community are doing a great job with Proton and Linux.

How is you experience and use with Proton?

 

[haralds]

Whisky or Crossover/CXPatcher with Porting kit.

 

[gustavopi]

Valve and the community are doing a great job with Proton and Linux.

How is you experience and use with Proton?

Mixed. Still have to do some adjustments to make it run, change version etc.. But the performance is good and after tunned, is rare further problems. Is good enough to buy games and take the risk.

Whisky or Crossover/CXPatcher with Porting kit.

I don´t know Whisky, please share! Crossover is still expansive solution, thought.

 

[agentsmithone]

Valve and the community are doing a great job with Proton and Linux.

How is you experience and use with Proton?

I have a Razer Blade Advanced that I wiped the 2 TB SSD on and installed Nobara Linux (customized Fedora 37 by Glorious Eggroll of Proton notability) and games just work. Haven’t looked back at Windows for gaming since.

I got Game Porting Toolkit running on my M2 MacBook Pro in the early days. Had mixed results with Resident Evil 3 (excellent frame rate but glitchy starting a new game). Haven’t tried the CX patcher and Whisky advances in tech yet. Looking forward to it.