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OpenSteamClient / OpenSteamClient

Partially open-source alternative Steam Client for Linux.

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Porting to MacOS #23

Open Jletallec opened 1 year ago

Jletallec commented 1 year ago

Hello, I'd like to know how to port the client to MacOS for several reasons:

It's a Unix system, similar in some ways to Linux
The Steam client on Mac is not native: it doesn't run on Apple Silicon chips correctly.
I'd like to integrate modules that use the new Game Porting Toolkit recently released by Apple, which lets you run a lot of Windows games.
I like the idea of an Open Source client!
I could integrate SwiftUI to create beautiful modern interfaces

Rosentti commented 1 year ago

I'm not sure how well C# works on macos, but I'll let you know once the rewrite is done.

Jletallec commented 1 year ago

The Unity engine is native on Apple Silicon, so I guess?

Rosentti commented 1 year ago

If steam has a native apple silicon port then a native M1 port should be possible. If not, then it'd have to be a non native port unless we can somehow host steamclient in a separate process and IPC it all interface calls which would be pretty complex.

Jletallec commented 1 year ago

Steam isn't native on the new Apple chips, which causes a lot of interface lags, which is why I was looking for a way to create a native, open-source client.

Rosentti commented 1 year ago

Ah. I doubt that this ui is as resource intensive as the 3 web browsers steam runs