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For King Tovalds and Country of FOSS OS’s

  • googlrr@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Do you think valve hasn’t been investing a crazy amount in Linux gaming? Has any other person or company done more to make gaming better on the platform?

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      1 year ago

      No I don’t think it has been investing a crazy amount.

      The wine project has done MUCH more overall. Hands down.

      And they haven been polluting out systems with proprietary software,nor they ever endorsed gambling,dlcs and always online drms:)

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        1 year ago

        It’s not a competition. What the Wine project achieved in 30 years isn’t an argument against the achievements of Proton which has only been around for 5 years.

        It’s impossible to deny the investment of Steam into making gaming on Linux work better.

        Edit: I didn’t see your ninja edit. I get it: Steam is bad so all the effort they put into enabling gaming on Linux is bad as well…

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          1 year ago

          Never said it was.

          I was asked if I think valve is Investing crazy amount of money.I don’t. They have a lot of financial interest in seeing Linux succeed. Their investment seems appropriate.

          I’ve been asked if somebody had more impact on Linux gaming. Wine is the answer and is undeniable.

          I never said that also. Just stating that valve did one thing good for Linux gamers and 1000 bad ones. Wine did only good.

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            1 year ago

            What are 5 of the 1000 bad things Valve has specifically done for Linux gamers? 5 things that are on par with the (apparently) “one” good thing Valve did for Linux gamers, which is (I guess) create a gaming distro and distro-independent open-source compatibility layer that enables phenomenal performance, sometimes even better than running linux native code? A compatible layer co-developed by CodeWeavers, known for being one of, if not THE biggest contributor to Wine and the primary maintainer of the Wine project?

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        1 year ago

        Wine never let me play games with this much compatibility or performance. This is just steam hate for the sake of it.

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            1 year ago

            of course i do im just not going to sit here and pretend that Steam hasn’t done a tremendous amount to make that accessible and easier. None of this is a dig on Wine I used it for years. idk why you’re coming off so aggressive about wine you need to chill