
At least it’s now proven that Steam Deck can have better app management in windows than iPad with Stage Manager. And ironically, while you can run macOS anywhere these days, Apple still insists on not bringing it to the iPad. Still, it’s quite interesting to see Apple’s desktop operating system installed on a portable device like the Steam Deck.Īt the same time, macOS doesn’t seem the ideal operating system for a game console since there aren’t many popular games available for it. Unfortunately, there’s no video showing how well macOS runs on the device, but the user says that the “performance is normal,” although some animations are laggy – probably because macOS has no graphics acceleration when running on virtual machines. This makes it easy for developers to modify the system to run any apps they want, not just those offered by Steam. Steam Deck runs a SteamOS, which is based on Linux. In the comments section, the user identified as “Lampa183” explains that the process was only possible through VirtualBox, which is software for running virtual machines.



The story shared on Reddit (via The Verge) shows a photo of a Steam Deck running macOS Catalina 10.15.3. But one user did something rather unusual recently by installing macOS Catalina on a Steam Deck gaming console. However, there are many ways to install Apple’s operating system on other computers, a process that has become known as Hackintosh. In theory, macOS was designed to work exclusively with Macs.
