[canpan]

Steam developing proton was what made it possible for me to change fully. No dual boot or anything needed. It's great.

Funnily I also run GoG games through steam proton.. But looking forward to the GoG client working!

[the_af]

Steam with Proton is simply incredible.

And now it doesn't even split games in "Linux" vs "Windows"; it simply assumes all games run on Linux. And they mostly do! Though to be fair I had to tweak a couple to make them run, and Space Marine II absolutely refuses to play past the cutscene, but most other games "just work".

[hbn]

God I hope Valve gets serious with Steam OS and it becomes a competitive target for PC games. They're making amazing progress with the Steam Deck, and I'm so ready to be free from Windows.

[tombert]

I was amazed that the PC port of Spider-man Myles Morales worked perfectly with no tweaking at all. That’s the newest AAA game I own (I think), and it runs silky smooth and hasn’t had any issues.

It wasn’t that long ago that Wine was only really useful for games that were at least 5-10 years old. Proton is amazing.

[red-iron-pine]

WINE crawled so that Proton could run.

Like even in 2014 WINE worked well enough for most games for me. Proton just made it utterly effortless, and lets me run AAA games like RDR2 and CP2077.

[dimas_codes]

I would say that WINE did 90% of what had to be done, then Proton came and did another 90% so now we are 99% there.

[theshrike79]

I'm still wondering why Apple hasn't taken a few billion of their trillions and just built/bought a Proton style layer for macOS.

The computing power is there, we just need the ability to run Windows-only games on Macs with a single click.

[ActorNightly]

Im not super familiar with the space.

Is the only reason for needing Proton is to do direct x api translations?

[johnny22]

Games use plenty of other win32 APIs. Creating windows, running processes, opening files are all APIs.

Something like wine is needed to do that translation too.