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by pjmlp 907 days ago
Valve adocates are the ones failing to learn from OS/2 history, "it does Windows better than Windows".

Studios don't care about native GNU/Linux, despite the games being shipped with Android/NDK, PlayStation POSIX environment, and the available APIs on Switch OS.

All of them much easier than porting from Windows/XBox, almost straight ports if coming from Android/NDK.
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brnt 907 days ago
Having a desktop OS was a big thing 30 years ago, but now nobody cares anymore. Who interacts with their OS other than launching browsers or apps based on browsers? Not even most coders these days.

OSes are irrelevant these days and having basically libwindows.so these days only underlines that.

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pjmlp 906 days ago
That is why GNU/Linux gaming is stuck on 2%, and needs to emulate Windows APIs.

Valve only stresses the relevance of Windows.

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brnt 906 days ago
The Steam user survey isnt a representative number. An API isn't emulated, it's implemented, it's no more or less native than Windows itself.

In various benchmarks Proton is now outperforming Windows. There is no need for it anymore, outside some niche applications.

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pjmlp 906 days ago
Statistics only matter when they make our case, yeah.

I know pretty well how Proton works.

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