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

Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G... by SmellyGeekBoy on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @06:16AM (#17817632)

I dual booted for a while but I found myself using Windows so infrequently that whenever I booted it up I'd wind up spending hours updating everything. In the end I decided it was far too much hassle.

Incidentally my "game time" these days is much more likely to be on my 486 PC, Atari 800 or Dreamcast. I don't have much time to game so being able to jump in immediately and not be interrupted trumps the latest-and-greatest blingy graphics any day.

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Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G... by majewsky on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @10:13AM (#17818788)

Completely agree with the first paragraph. I haven't booted Win 10 in over a year now.

A large part of my "game time" is on emulated PS2, so I guess I'm way younger than you. :)

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Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G... by laumars on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @09:57AM (#17818694)

This is exactly why I'm into retro gaming as well

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