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Re:Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux by badsectoracula on Friday March 05, 2021 @02:42PM (#26361146)
> I have bought many native Linux games that simply don’t launch, but run perfectly in Proton. Companies also stop updating their Linux ports often

They also stop updating their Windows versions, the main difference is that Microsoft cares a bit more about backwards compatibility than the vast majority of Linux desktop developers.

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Re:Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux by ubercow13 on Friday March 05, 2021 @02:50PM (#26361225)
That's true but I was referring to games that continue to add new features and improvements to their Windows client, but leave the Linux client on an old version, which is a separate issue. With online games this sometimes even means that Linux users will no longer be able to play with Windows users.

On the other hand Wine probably has better backwards compatibility with old Windows games that Windows does in many cases.

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Re:Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux by heelix on Friday March 05, 2021 @10:53PM (#26365026)
It does. I've got older games from the Windows XP days that had issues with Windows 7 even with the compatibility mode. My Linux box with proton was able to run it, ironically enough.
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