![]() Now let's review what happened, under this assumption. I just choose not to be wrong.You know what? Fine. Originally posted by monad:I read everything. We just have more efficient square-peg-to-round-hole adapters now. ![]() We haven't made even the most minute smidge of progress in getting them to release round pegs. A lot of refinement has happened but we're still trying to force a square peg into a round hole. Sure, the names have changed, it's Proton instead of WINE now, but we're still in the same boat. If they wanted to, they could find a way.Īnd even still, even if that never happens, even if a better example never comes along, running Proton independent of Steam still puts us right back at square one, exactly where we were 28 years ago, when we were trying to brute force literally all windows software, both past and future, to work on Linux, via WINE. Locking software to their platform is exactly what Steam was designed for. But let's not forget Steam is a DRM service. Valve isn't an awful scumbag company right now. Proton running independently is a door Valve has open right now. It's also true Proton can run independent of Steam but, while I still love Valve, they are still a company. Should we really wait for a better example to come along? But remember things could have ended a whole other way. It's true this isn't the best example, since it was only a year of exclusivity and things generally worked out pretty uneventfully anyways EGS stopped funding the game industry and everybody went back to Steam. In fact, and I don't want to put too fine of a point on this, most don't. While Valve/Steam supports Linux, EGS does not. It's all well and good for software that's on Steam, but it wasn't very long ago that EGS was single-handedly ensuring the financial success of many games by brute forcing it with their own money, with the stipulation of exclusivity. To answer your question, if you don't see the importance in a native Linux build then let me remind you Proton is a Valve thing. ![]() The Proton experience is flawless? Who said that?
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