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5 years ago Valve released Proton forever changing Linux gaming (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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Happy birthday, Proton!

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago (21 children)

I feel like attributing this to Valve is really disrespectful to the folks who developed wine for decades (and more recently also Vulkan). The real game changer is Vulkan, which made Linux graphics to be competitive with DirectX. (OpenGL interfaces to DirectX was simply not competitive)

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

At least initially this was mostly DXVK though, which is a project that was secretly funded by Valve after it showed some promising initial results. Edit: but I agree that WINE deserves more credit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

as someone else said, it's a "standing on the shoulders of giants" moment for Valve

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