Quoting: poiuzDirect3D 12, Announcement: March 24, 2014
Metal, Initial release iOS: June 2, 2014
Vulkan, Announcement: March 13, 2015
Metal, Initial release macOS: June 8, 2015
Direct3D 12, Initial release: July 29, 2015
Vulkan, Initial release: February 16, 2016

Your timeline is misleading. Both MS and Apple can be blamed for not supporting Vulkan. They did it very deliberately knowing it's being developed, since they did it out of obvious lock-in intent.

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Quoting: poiuzYes, your right. Gamers care about games. Apple tries to get games on macOS

Saying they care about gamers or try to get games on macOS when they make existing games unplayable is complete nonsense. No point to even argue further about it.

Ubuntu realized it in time when they wanted to drop 32-bit support and reversed that dumb idea, which is a lot better than how Apple treats gamers by completely disregarding them.

That's why I seriously don't get anyone expecting macOS to be usable for gaming, when Apple just gives them middle finger in that sense.

It's simple. Apple cares about Apple and tells users what they should do or not do. Apple doesn't care about gamers and isn't interested in their needs.

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Quoting: poiuzThey dropped support for old games. So what?

So it means they don't give two sh*ts about gamers. They do whatever the heck they want for their own purposes. Gamers being completely not a consideration. QED.

Arguing any abstract arguments when they literally made already existing games on their own platform unplayable is pointless. Gamers care about games, not about Apple telling them "your games you paid for are now broken, have fun".

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Quoting: poiuzConsoles drop support for the previous generations all the time & people seldom care. Worst case scenario they just buy a remaster. Eventually there will be a community driven compatibility layer (if somebody cares).

I don't get any of your arguments. Apple is a PC vendor, so dropping 32-bit support and not supporting OpenGL / Vulkan directly harmed gaming on their own platform. It's glaringly obvious they don't care about this use case, Steam or not Steam. They deliberately make things worse, something Linux never has done for gamers.

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Good to see Wine Wayland moving forward.

What's the story with winesync though? I'm building wine-esync from staging, but I'd prefer upstream support.

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Good. I don't get why anyone would use macOS for gaming. Apple completely doesn't care about gamers and does the opposite from supporting them. From not supporting OpenGL and Vulkan to dropping 32-bit support and so on.

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The annoying Firefox on Wayland crash is fixed with this kernel.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeFunny enough, the PCB was the same size, but the heat sink just hung off of it about 4 inches further. It came with a bracket to stabilize it better... GPUs are just getting silly in size.

Congrats for switching to AMD.

I went for even bigger 7900 XTX and Sapphire Nitro+ model for it is especially huge. But the upside is that it's really silent and runs relatively cool even under heavy load. So massive heat sink is useful.

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So far it's not free on GOG and itch.io, but I suppose the developer just didn't get to changing that yet:

https://www.gog.com/en/game/helium_rain
https://deimos-games.itch.io/helium-rain

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It's kind of funny they position 7800 XT as 1440p gaming card. I guess their baseline is 60 fps for this designation? Something like CP2077 runs at ~140 fps with 7900 XTX at 2560x1440, so I'd say it's a good 1440p card? 7800 XT wouldn't be enough.

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