Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux

Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G... by laumars on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @01:54AM (#17816634)

A few reasons:

  * License cost
  * HDD / SSD storage space
  * OS performance
  * They might not agree with the EULA
  * Or simply because they just don't don't like Windows.

The real question is now that the web has gotten everyone used to the idea of applications being platform agnostic, why would anyone want to go back to a Windows lock in?

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Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G... by alias_neo on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @05:00AM (#17817342)

All correct. Also, I booted into Windows on Saturday to play a game, it hadn't been booted in months, so I hat to wait for a forced SP install and Windows wiped out Grub. Every time I boot back into Windows it kills Grub and I have to fix it again. Not only did I lose all my gaming time to the updates, I lost extra time fixing my bootloader because of Windows' aggressive BS. The sooner I can get it gone the better and I'll free up an entire SSD for games.

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Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G... by honkycat on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @11:47AM (#17819520)

I just have two hard drives for this reason, super super annoying.

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Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G... by hegz on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @04:21AM (#17817185)

A big one is not having to reboot in to the other OS to do stuff.

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Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G... by pferde on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @04:53AM (#17817318)

On the other hand, having easy (just a click away instead of having to reboot) access to games requires greater discipline, in order to avoid procrastinating. :)

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