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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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