New Steam update which should already be downloading to your system now introduces a hole heap of new updates and more importantly for at least me… hardware acceleration on Mac and Linux!
Now if we could just talk Valve into nagging some of the game devs to adding 64bit builds of 32bit MacOS games… please
Valve wroteToday we’re shipping a significant update to Steam Client, with new features and improvements to the Steam Desktop experience.
- Updated Steam Client notifications, with additional settings allowing you to choose which notifications you’ll see, and where you’ll see them
- Visual and usability improvements in dialogs, menus, fonts, and colors - including screenshot manager, achievements, and more
- An overhauled in-game overlay (accessible via Shift+Tab), with an updated design, new features, and more customizability
- New notes functionality with rich text formatting, image pasting, and offline functionality. Multiple notes can be saved per-game, and they are accessible via the in-game overlay, desktop client, and Steam Deck
- New pinning functionality - panels from the in-game overlay can now be “pinned” (with adjustable opacity) so they are viewable while in-game
- Updated controller configurator is now part of the overlay when a gamepad is connected
- Mac & Linux versions of Steam have been updated to enable hardware acceleration
In addition to these features, a good portion of the work we did in this update went into significant improvements under-the-hood, including changes to how we share code across Steam Desktop, Steam Deck, and Big Picture Mode.
source: https://store.steampowered.com/oldnews/195171