Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux

Re:Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux by charcircuit on Friday March 05, 2021 @03:40PM (#26361794)

>a disproportionately vocal minority comprising <1% customers but >50% of bug requests

I doubt that this is generally true based off the discussions I've seen in the Steam forums for various games.

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Re:Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday March 05, 2021 @05:13PM (#26362838)

It could also be true in a good way. Would it be so hard to claim that Linux users are more likely to report bugs, so the difference is not "Linux users are whiny" but "Windows users saw the same bugs and just suffered or stopped buying your program silently, while Linux users saw bugs and actually told you about it"?

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Re:Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux by washadjeffmad on Friday March 05, 2021 @05:14PM (#26362853)

This was circa 2013. Unity3D had barely included build options for Linux publishing, and it was a much less mature time for gaming on Linux.

So you're right, it isn't generally true today.

I personally don't use the Linux builds if the Windows version works with Proton, but I do download them for archival. I also don't submit bug reports to devs for Steamplay issues, so that's another factor.

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