[faeriechangling]

Even the Linux games situation is changing a lot. If I can run 90% of games jut fine on Linux, I'm going to be inclined to use Linux and 90% of games on the market, rather than Windows and 100%.

I see new awesome software being released on Linux first every year. Every cool Windows software project I can even name started maybe 10 or 30 years ago. The amount of development dollars going to Android gaming has long since surpassed the dollars going to Windows gaming, and the revenue is already in Android's favour, but there are still more quality games on Windows. That will flip one day and when it does things like Proton will make more and more sense.

For me, Linux feels like the future as flawed as it is, while Windows feels like the past. The only way Microsoft could possibly save Windows at this point would be to open source it and rescind their monopoly to it and adopt the Red Hat business model, and that might not be enough, and I don't see it happening.

[smackeyacky]

I feel like Proton is a weird backwards step for Linux, but in the end it will be a major part of people finishing up with Windows.