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Figured you guys might enjoy this. A screenshot of my gaming desktop and wine experiments from 2013. (feddit.dk)
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[–] GreenMinusBlue@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

From the time we used Wine instead of Proton :)

[–] neclimdul@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Today?

[–] GreenMinusBlue@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Its somewhat the same today. Its just packaged wine, into proton. Valve pays for Proton a.k.a Wine releases. TLDR: Steam didnt make Linux gaming viable. Wine did, Steam just made it more mainstream and easier to implement.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

They also created a market incentive for devs to at least consider compatiblity with the program due to the steam deck.

[–] flameleaf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And we used PlayOnLinux to install Windows games using CDs and DVDs

[–] GreenMinusBlue@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Haha used the PlayOnLinux GUI like total noobs, remember those days clearly lol