[reactordev]

I would have laughed at you and said there’s no way to get all the FOSS developers to implement a win32 shim like this. Here I am now, foot in mouth, because it was done by people who had a vested interest, Valve et al. It’s like if someone said: “Hey kid, 10 years from now you’ll be on the moon.” and then, a decade later, you’re literally on the moon doing science or moonwalks to Michael Jackson or potato farming.

[geraldhh]

afaik valve did mostly package and polish the components like wine and dxvk when making proton but the bulk of the w32 api was implemented by foss dev's in the decades before

[paines]

Exaxctly. The one really big thing, at least for me, was making controller/joypad usage easy or more less hazle free. Before that, you had to do that manually which was a PITA

[HeckFeck]

Gabe used to work on Windows, he has a long memory.