With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux

Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by kungtotte on Monday October 29, 2018 @01:26PM (#18329261)

That's another hidden feature of Steam/Proton:

Whichever platform you play a new game on the most during the initial two weeks after getting it will be registered as the platform you bought it for.

E.g. play a Windows-only game for two weeks using Proton and both Steam and the gamedev will see it as a Linux purchase in their stats. Meaning they get actual numbers how big their Linux demographic is.

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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by jedimastert on Monday October 29, 2018 @03:16PM (#18330370)

Really? Wow. That's awesome. Of course, that's kind of unfortunate for games that don't work with Proton right now.

Does that remove the Windows purchase too? That could be seen as 2 purchases for the same game.

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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by kungtotte on Monday October 29, 2018 @03:26PM (#18330475)

AFAIK it's only for new purchases. So if you've played a game for some time under Windows it won't change the stats for that game.

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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by londt8 on Monday October 29, 2018 @04:59PM (#18331377)

Are you sure about this? I would think using wine or any other emulator would show up as windows in the statistics.

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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by wtallis on Monday October 29, 2018 @05:32PM (#18331709)

The game might think it's running under Windows, but the Steam process that launched it is Linux-native.

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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by yellowapple on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @11:05AM (#18337184)

Also, IIRC Steam under Wine was/is able to detect that it's running under Wine and thus adjust its reports accordingly.

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