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WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR OTHER LAUNCHERS (lutris/bottles/heroic/legendary,etc):

  • everyone can use + contribute to the same protonfixes, no more managing individual install scripts per launcher
  • everyone can run their games through proton just like a native steam game
  • no steam or steam binaries required
  • a unified online database of game fixes (protonfixes)
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[–] GrappleHat@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Read the GitHub page. I don't understand all of it, but what I think I understand sounds great! Proton would be available without Steam!

What's all of this stuff about "protonfixes" though? What is "protonfixes"? And how is it better with this new launcher?

[–] Xatix@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

Its basically bugfixes for specific games through proton. Different fames need different fixes, so you cant just make a general fix for some bugs if they only exist in one game. The new launcher promises to make one database for those fixes where all the launchers can fetch their data from instead of everyone having to do their own thing and having to fix each game separately.

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