[ilikehurdles]

Valve has contributed a ton of work to Ubuntu/Linux. They’ve pretty much single handedly turned around Linux gaming to the point where I can safely expect most windows-exclusive games on steam will run smoothly on Ubuntu. Freeloading couldn’t be farther from the truth.

[simion314]

This is not fair or true, Wine developers did a lot of work, the big progress happened recently because Vulkan drivers that allowed a better reimplementation of Directx11, Dx9 worked fine before Proton and Vulkan.

Valve made a big contribution now but is not correct to give them all the credit.

[cheez]

> They’ve pretty much single handedly turned around Linux gaming to the point where I can safely expect most windows-exclusive games on steam will run smoothly on Ubuntu.

Wait... What? When did this happen?

[zwerdlds]

It's called Proton and the repo is here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton

[MegaDeKay]

> Freeloading couldn’t be farther from the truth.

Exactly this. For example, from Phoronix just today: "Valve Is Funding Improvements To KDE's KWin & More Work On X.Org"

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Valve-Fu...