Comment on Linux users: Are we over-reliant on Steam?
slauraure@beehaw.org 2 days agoYeah that’s kind of huge tbh. I honestly hadn’t read that much about Proton. Like that facts that it’s open source.
Just remember all the discussions from the early days of Steam on Linux where some were miffed about running non-free software. I then figured that it was a necessary evil to have games work with less hassle. The games themselves are largely closed source as well, so it’s kind of moot that Steam is also.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 days ago
Proton is mostly a fork of Wine which has been used for decades to run Windows software on Linux. Valve didn’t do all the hard work by themselves.
slauraure@beehaw.org 2 days ago
Yeah, well familiar with wine going back over 10 years of using Linux as primary OS with the occasional foray into getting my games running on Linux. Most of this time I have just kept a copy of Windows available for games though since it’s been way too much hassle getting things to run until the last couple of years.