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I remember when Proton launched it was like magic playing games like Doom and Nier Automata straight from the Linux Steam client with excellent performance. I do not miss the days of having the Windows version of Steam installed separately.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Who do we thank for this? Steam or who is behind making proton viable? I guess they have donated a bunch of money for this.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think codeweaver are also involved.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wine developers. Yes, Valve/Proton has given it a big boost in the last few years but the Wine project has been under steady development for 30 years, almost as long as Linux itself. I remember trying it for the first time back in the day and being amazed that it could run Minesweeper.