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  • Saying Value is the number one contributor to Game Porting Toolkit just isn’t true though. Wine has been around for almost 30 years now and Value (only about 5 years ago) jumped on the only project that has any real success with running Win games on Linux. I was using Wine and Crossover to play games on my Mac before Proton was a thing. The real magic that pushes performance to acceptable levels has been the introduction of Apple’s own D3DMetal libraries.

    Let’s give credit where credit is due.





















  • Yes, it’s great when you need to stop and resume. For data migrations between Macs I typically use…

    caffeinate sudo rsync -vaEP

    The flags are:

    • v increases verbosity.
    • a applies archive settings to mirror the source files exactly, including symbolic links and permissions.
    • E copies extended attributes and resource forks (macOS only).
    • P progress provides a count down and transfer statistics during the copy.