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Re:Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates by zamalek on Monday August 31, 2026 @06:09PM (#49515448)
What benefit does a native build have over proton? I used to care more about it on Linux, until I realized that "native build" probably means "doesn't work." I can only imagine this being much worse on a niche gaming target which there are extremely few users making (and voting for) bug reports.

Tack on having to pay Apple to play in their shitty ecosystem and it makes complete sense.

Wine/proton as a gaming ABI/runtime is perfectly fine, Microsoft used to do a lot to maintain backcompat and that spirit has clearly distilled into proton: it even runs games Windows is unable to (most recent example of mine is Black and White).

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Re:Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates by msh on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:01AM (#49518872)
Native build usually also means it’s a supported platform and developers will try to fix any big issues coming up.
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Re:Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates by bigyabai on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @01:38PM (#49525200)
On macOS, it often means the opposite. Natively compiled games like Portal 2 stopped working when Apple depreciated 32-bit libraries and transitioned to Metal.

This is why Proton is so important, since the games are theoretically supported forever as long as you port the DXVK/Wine backend to the latest APIs.

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