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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by skohan on Monday December 07, 2020 @01:49PM (#25335576)
Maybe in the short term, but if it means a bigger part of the steam userbase is running games on Linux, it will become economically justified for more developers to work on first-party titles.
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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by thrower123 on Monday December 07, 2020 @01:56PM (#25335673)
I've been hearing that line for close to two decades. I don't think Valve even supports their old GoldSrc games that they ported to run on Linux way back.
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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by skohan on Monday December 07, 2020 @02:13PM (#25335884)
Proton is still very new, and it's night-and-day better than any previous gaming experience on Linux. I don't think past trends necessarily apply
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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by thrower123 on Monday December 07, 2020 @04:01PM (#25337457)
It's a fancy version of Wine...
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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by skohan on Monday December 07, 2020 @05:33PM (#25338624)
Fancy enough to be invisible to the user, such that games behave like native apps, and to give performance which is better than Windows in some cases.

UX was the biggest obstacle to gaming on Linux, and proton solves it

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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by throwaway2048 on Monday December 07, 2020 @02:01PM (#25335750)
All Valve titles are linux native except Half-Life Alyx, including GoldSrc titles (Counterstrike, Half Life etc).

VR support is still being worked on.

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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by thesquidofgol on Monday December 07, 2020 @04:22PM (#25337740)
Half-Life Alyx has a Linux native build https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/05/half-life-alyx-now-ava...
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