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I really don't understand the reasoning. Obviously wine works only on Linux, it converts Windows calls to Linux... And there are Windows devs targeting proton compatibility specifically?! In my opinion proton could somehow helps devs realizing that there could be a Linux market but that doesn't go further than that.
A lot of them aim for Steam Deck, so maybe not explicitly, but yeah.
Interesting, do you have any devs communication about it?
Not off the top of my head... But many games have a specific "Steam Deck" graphics setting that's optimized for Deck, so I imagine those devs have talked about it.