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Re:5 years ago Valve released Proton forever changing Linux ... by johnny22 on Monday August 21, 2023 @03:34PM (#37214259)
I've only heard good things about it, but i see no reason to use it. making fedora do what it does is easy enough.
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Re:5 years ago Valve released Proton forever changing Linux ... by slikrick on Monday August 21, 2023 @03:52PM (#37214478)
"Easy enough" sure, you keep up with all those patches, manually, on your own system, then say it.

This site literally can't not be pretentious

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Re:5 years ago Valve released Proton forever changing Linux ... by FirmwareBurner on Monday August 21, 2023 @04:07PM (#37214660)
>This site literally can't not be pretentious

Infamous Dropbox comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

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Re:5 years ago Valve released Proton forever changing Linux ... by johnny22 on Monday August 21, 2023 @06:32PM (#37216225)
most of those things other than the codecs and steam from rpmfusion just aren't necessary for most folks is all.

I'm not trying to shame folks from using an easy route. You read my comment extremely uncharitably.

I do think one should be careful of relying on a project with a bus factor of 1 for your OS.

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Re:5 years ago Valve released Proton forever changing Linux ... by FirmwareBurner on Monday August 21, 2023 @04:04PM (#37214620)
>i see no reason to use it. making fedora do what it does is easy enough

Yes, people working in tech and with free time can do that, but many don't want to go down that rabbit hole anymore and fiddle with their OS to get it to where Nobara is, and would rather go for something that's already preconfigured out of the box for the best gaming experience where everything is already set and you can immediately start installing and playing games after installing the OS, similarly to Windows is. That's the whole point of these distros.

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Re:5 years ago Valve released Proton forever changing Linux ... by Glome495 on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @12:32PM (#37238546)
Then they should be using a simpler distro like mint because an install script doesn't change the fact that it's still Fedora which doesn't target new users.
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