I have a question about… Gaming on Mac. I know, I know. It’s for my wife, though. Lol!

She has a very old Windows laptop that I cannot convince her to let me put Linux on to improve its life. I’m looking to source an upgrade for her. She is an iPhone person, through and through, and I thought it might be nice to get something for her in that ecosystem. So, I’m looking into a MacBook of some sort.

The question: how does a MacBook hold up to light gaming? We’re talking Sims 4 and Minecraft, primarily.

  • tiramichu@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Fair :) Glad I was able to share my experience if that helped a little.

    I’d like to make the switch to Linux for my gaming desktop, currently still on Windows for that personally, but soon!

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      8 months ago

      Just be sure to research your must-have titles on ProtonDB. It’ll tell you pretty much everything you need to know if there’s any tinkering to be done for your titles… And don’t make the same mistake I did! 😂

      I upgraded from an AMD Radeon RX580 to an Intel ARC A750… Works perfect, except the specific setup of Linux + Intel ARC can’t play Halo Infinite… It worked fine (if subpar performance) on the RX580, but there’s some software issues between Vulkan and Intel that means certain DX12 games that make a very particular graphics call will NOT work with an Intel GPU… Otherwise I love it!