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minus-squareLive Your Lives@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoWhat have they done for Linux, exactly? The only thing I’m aware of is the Steam Deck.
minus-squarePumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-22 months agoProton improved Linux gaming compatibility by several orders of magnitude, on all distros and across nearly all desktop and laptop hardware, including for non-steam games and even non-gaming applications. Steam deck is a pretty small piece of that.
minus-squaresem@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoWine was so complicated and hit or miss back in the day. So glad games can just work now, and for no extra cost.
minus-squarelastweakness@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoThey’re also funding KDE and arch linux devs right now
minus-squareamorangi@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoMost games work out of the box on Linux thanks to steam, and in a lot of cases better than om Windows.
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agothis is kinda like asking “what good has the metropolitan line done for urban transportation?” oh they only literally invented the concept of a subway, no biggie
What have they done for Linux, exactly? The only thing I’m aware of is the Steam Deck.
Proton improved Linux gaming compatibility by several orders of magnitude, on all distros and across nearly all desktop and laptop hardware, including for non-steam games and even non-gaming applications. Steam deck is a pretty small piece of that.
Wine was so complicated and hit or miss back in the day. So glad games can just work now, and for no extra cost.
They’re also funding KDE and arch linux devs right now
Most games work out of the box on Linux thanks to steam, and in a lot of cases better than om Windows.
this is kinda like asking “what good has the metropolitan line done for urban transportation?”
oh they only literally invented the concept of a subway, no biggie