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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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