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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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[–] kadu@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You're correct in giving WINE the credit it's due.

But I couldn't disagree more with the "gaming with WINE was not that bad" statement.

It was horrible. Game updates broke compatibility a thousand times, outdated Wine wrappers were a mess, setting up most games involved convoluted scripts, and even when things magically just worked performance was usually lower (except for some specific CPU bound games).