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Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Oh, absolutely.

The point I’m making is that with its process Lutris + Wine are scaling up much faster to seamlessly make Windows games Click & Play in Linux than Steam can.

It’s the same old same old, open source software solution vs closed corporate software solution that happens in so many other domains: the open source one starts clunky and quirky and it will always tend towards the side of user “enough rope to hang themselves with” (too many option, many very powerful) whilst the closed corporate one will from the very start be slick and easier to use but very limited when it comes to what users can do to customize it or even fix it when it doesn’t work but over time and if it manages to survive the open source one will be better and far more capable and flexible than the corporate one.

It’s what you see with for example Blender vs Adobe’s suit of 3D modelling programs or Linux vs Windows (if it weren’t for the well entrenched ecosystem of Windows-only applications, I doubt Windows would still be around).

That’s why I think something like Lutris + Wine are the future, not Proton integrated into the Store application of Steam.

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