Apple-Silicon-Guide VS FinderFix

Congratulations for buying a NON-PC that's IN-capable of playing games on its own except these games https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_macOS_ARM_games. You paid top dollars for a crippled machine, all thanks to Apple. Any ARM user "Must" use one of the PC Emulators told in https://github.com/mikeroyal/Apple-Silicon-Guide which is usually Rosetta (default by Apple) for you so that you can play ANY game you see but NOT in its native speed but in Emulated (slower but not much) speed.

Steam sells only Windows games with "exceptions" for Linux games (SteamOS) and MacOS games (only means Intel-Macs, not ARM-Macs). Since you now own a non-PC now it's time to EMULATE a PC in your ARM device so first READ through https://github.com/mikeroyal/Apple-Silicon-Guide which forms the basis of how to do Gaming in any ARM device.

GPT (Game Porting Kit) is NOT what you think it's and definitely not what Apple advertises to be a Proton competitor (Proton is for SAME CPU but Different OSes, GPT is for Different CPU + Different OSes, totally irrelevant). GPT is just "another Windows EMULATOR" as there are lots of them in the https://github.com/mikeroyal/Apple-Silicon-Guide but a better one compared to previous attempts for the same thing.

Unless you sell your Mac for a PC (M1 devices are not PC), you'll need these emulation tools because nothing will change.

So there are 2 paths ahead of you; either buy a Normal Laptop (Intel or AMD) and enjoy all the PC games that can you find or buy a Apple Laptop and instead use Windows Emulation (current best solution with all emulation tools listed at https://github.com/mikeroyal/Apple-Silicon-Guide) to play any PC games you may want, with glitches of course due to emulation Basically you choose either Gaming or Apple but can't do both for a satisfactory performance because the money you'll be giving to a Apple Laptop will get you a better PC Gaming Laptop for the same price range.

All the solutions told in https://github.com/mikeroyal/Apple-Silicon-Guide are one way or another an emulation for Windows because there are no other ways. Sad thing is, Apple did the same scam back then 2000's with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC as it can be referred as M0 of is time (predecessor to M1) but that caused them to Bankrupt so later to be saved by https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/29/steve-jobs-and-bill-gates-what-happened-when-microsoft-saved-apple.html but Apple is stupid enough to repeat same mistake again and deceive their fans.

Thing is, Proton is between Operating Systems for the "same" PC Architecture of Intel CPU Instruction Set that governs all the CPUs (Intel, AMD, whatever) except only the ARM so Proton is extremely fast because it's a Code Conversion layer rather than an Emulation. Instead Apple using Mobile CPUs (where M comes from) on PC Architecture is very very different because this is between "different" PC Achitectures so code conversion won't suffice and instead Full Emulation is done from Intel-to-ARM via software on a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine that all ARM solutions told in https://github.com/mikeroyal/Apple-Silicon-Guide based upon.

In case anyone didn't understand his -Enigmatic- talk, he's talking about https://www.applegamingwiki.com/wiki/Game_Porting_Toolkit the latest band-aid from Apple as all previous attempts are at https://github.com/mikeroyal/Apple-Silicon-Guide to make Windows Warframe to -force- it work on M1-M2 series Macintosh models via emulation (and no GPTK doesn't work like Steam's Proton because Proton is a conversion layer between OSes so fast but Apple needs emulation between different CPU Architectures).

Basically, you own a "Mobile" CPU (where M comes from) running with the PC counterparts and no PC game is written for that CPU because all games are always written for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_instruction_listings (Intel and AMD) so players yourself now -Must- use Emulation Software that you can pick any from https://github.com/mikeroyal/Apple-Silicon-Guide. So you'll basically be running Windows in a Virtual Machine in your M1 Mac and run the game inside that virtual machine (any Windows game, it doesn't differ for you to be Mac anymore) for a lesser performance compared to running the game on a true PC that you used to have but no longer because of a poor and uninformed choice to switch to Mac.

So educate yourself by reading true articles like https://www.pcworld.com/article/394895/what-is-valve-proton-steam-deck-games-software-explained.html to learn the differences and be careful from now on where and how you get your information because you're inclined to believe in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_pollution created by Apple. Apple is creating Yet-Another-Windows-Emulator claiming to be faster from tons of other Emulators told in https://github.com/mikeroyal/Apple-Silicon-Guide which doesn't change the fact that games won't be running Natively so they'll either be slow or problematic (no emulation is perfect).

there are some apps to do this, I just remember (FinderFix)[https://synappser.github.io/apps/finderfix/] or Stay. Finally look here

And some window management utilities like Rectangle and my current favorites, FinderFix and AutoRaise.

I am hesitant on whether to classify your feature request under AutoRaise or FinderFix as it seems to belong halfway between the two apps. Do you mind submitting it meanwhile to the main synappser repo until I decide where it belongs? Thank you.

On May 24th, I opened FinderFix to public beta. A couple of days later, I noticed a sudden surge in the number of downloads. I am a regular reader of HN and Reddit where I have seen software thrust overnight into the limelight, so my first guess was that someone had posted about it. Seeing nothing unusual on HN, I headed to the other usual suspect and there it was on Reddit!

I was caught completely off guard by FinderFix (https://synappser.github.io/apps/finderfix/), the first application I'm opening to public beta, making the top row on Reddit a couple of weeks ago. This sudden limelight is both an opportunity and a challenge.

HN has been my morning coffee favourite read for years now but it's my very first post. I'm an old man, so please bare with me.

I am a seasoned systems architect and developer, now retired. While I was tempted in the first few weeks of my retirement to just turn the page and let it go, I remembered how much I used to enjoy writing small utilities for my own daily workflows. A year ago, I asked my fellow forum members (a Mac-dedicated one) if they would like to beta test some of my applications (and oh, they did). I got high quality feedback I would not have gotten elsewhere. I kept striving to answer their feature requests and today many of my first beta testers are insisting that my applications have outgrown the private beta.

I was caught completely off guard by FinderFix (https://synappser.github.io/apps/finderfix/), the first application I'm opening to public beta, making the top row on Reddit a couple of weeks ago. This sudden limelight is both an opportunity and a challenge.

I am not complaining. Any publicity is good publicity and I got this kind of genuine enthusiastic feedback: "OH MY GOD! Bro you’re a god sent. Thanks man I love this app. Also that Cmd + X for cut/paste. Oof so good!".

I however cherish anonymity and I laud the Internet for allowing me to enforce it. I am thus publishing my software under a pseudonym (a pen name, if you prefer) with a free Apple Developer Certificate. How long will I be able, with Apple's current Gatekeeper policy, to preserve my anonymity if I were to turn this hobby into a real business, albeit a small one?

For more context, please refer to a couple posts of mine (a manifesto of my core ethos):

http://synappser.github.io/blog/

I guess this is a tough question to answer, unless you're an Apple insider, but I'd really appreciate any guidance you could give me.

Thank you

I just learned of it this morning and haven't had the opportunity to try it, but FinderFix might be what you are looking for