[jansommer]

Already runs smooth on Linux (Wine)

[nicce]

Yes, but native is always native.

[distances]

Proton version often works much better than a native port. So I now always just force that on even if there's a native version.

[gambiting]

Native doesn't automatically mean better - quite a few examples of games running better on proton than with native executables(and yes then we can start arguing that it just means the native port is done poorly, but I'm just saying don't assume native will always run better).

[theshrike79]

When Proton started to get good, there were multiple stories of small game studios just dropping their bespoke Linux builds because the Windows->Proton version ran much much faster and required zero effort from them.

[Podrod]

Or just Proton