I remember when Proton launched it was like magic playing games like Doom and Nier Automata straight from the Linux Steam client with excellent performance. I do not miss the days of having the Windows version of Steam installed separately.

  • sederx
    129·
    1 year ago

    lol i was playing WoW on wine when most people here were in the fecal exchange phase

    please tell me how valve saved gaming

    • be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social
      19·
      1 year ago

      lol i was playing WoW on wine when most people here were in the fecal exchange phase

      Then just like me you can remember how much harder it used to be.

      please tell me how valve saved gaming

      No need to be a snarky dick you know.

      • sederx
        122·
        1 year ago

        lol i was just anticipating the fanboys.

        wow was literally wine wow.exe

        Jesus Christ the losers in this sub

    • Clbull@lemmy.world
      161·
      1 year ago

      Congratulations, you played the only Windows game that consistently scored Platinum rankings on Wine’s AppDB in the mid to late 2000’s.

      If you went past the tedious install process and didn’t mind the lack of Vsync on OpenGL, WoW ran like a dream on Linux and could actually pull higher framerates than on Windows.

      Valve definitely deserve credit. No other games publisher has contributed as much to the Linux gaming community as them, and they did it because they perceived Microsoft as an existential threat to their storefront.