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

Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G... by uomopertica on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @01:55AM (#17816638)

I can confirm that! I had to download Gears of War 4 from the Windows Store because it was distributed there. I had a terrible experience: account not logging, download not initiating etc. In the end I had to download it on my laptop whose Store was seemingly working better and transfer the files over to the Desktop. My experience is that WS is very fragile and much less reliable than Steam.

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Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G... by dogma1138 on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @05:37AM (#17817483)

That something I never understood the Xbox store works pretty much flawlessly. How hard do you need to work to screw up something that already works just fine.

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Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G... by gmueckl on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @07:06AM (#17817802)

If I had to guess I'd say by having it reimplemented in a different department... MS in the past has shown very severe symptoms of NIH between teams.

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