Modders bring Steam Frame build of SteamOS and all of its translation layer goodness to Mac

Gaming on Mac has come a long way. Gone are the days of limited releases, though not absolutely everything is playable on the platform. Thankfully, community developers are only too keen to plug the gaps.

FX Steam Launcher on GitHub brings SteamOS to Apple Silicon Macs. Specifically, this independent, open-source project is based on the ARM64 Steam Frame version of the operating system. Therefore, you're getting Windows game compatibility on Mac thanks to Proton 11 and FEX, alongside the very swish SteamOS interface (via Videocardz).

Obviously, there are a few things to bear in mind if you want to go all in as a Mac gamer. For one thing, this is not a native installation, and is instead running SteamOS by way of a virtual machine on your Mac. …