[account42]

> It doesn't surprise me at all. That number would have been zero without emulation like wine/Proton though.

No it wouldn't - there would still be people who like playing games and use Linux even if they couldn't play those games under Linux. Proton doesn't add anything to that.

[yyyk]

These people would have had to make the effort to get another system - Windows or a console, at which point most of them would have little reason to bother with Linux gaming.