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I feel like it used to be, but perhaps I'm wrong. Regardless, with Proton around, it seems like focusing on games is not the best path forward for distinguishin

I feel like it used to be, but perhaps I'm wrong. Regardless, with Proton around, it seems like focusing on games is not the best path forward for distinguishing their product, but competition isn't the worst thing. Biggest problem with that strategy is that I just don't associate their brand with it. For whatever reason, perhaps their historical focus if I'm right about that, I always think of getting office and productivity apps working when I think Crossover.

olliej 3y ago
Proton is Linux only and it seems crossover has a Big Mac focus so it’s seems reasonable for them to match proton. [edit: I’m leaving the autocarrot capitalization of Big Mac in place :)]
- SuperNinKenDo 3y ago
  Oh interesting, that hadn't occured to me, but they do mention macOS a lot in their materials, so that makes sense. From what I've read, here and elsewhere, Apple doesn't really reciprocate contributions to WINE, so embedding improvements aimed at smoothing out the experience on that platform inside the commercial wing on WINE development makes some sense in general. Thanks, their whole model makes a bit more sense to me now.
  - olliej 3y ago
    As I understand it, but to be clear I’m not involved in the wine community, codeweavers does a lot of the Mac contributions. I know apple has game porting toolkit or whatever they call it, which is essentially proton for Mac (built in wine etc) but I don’t know to what extent that is upstreamed. As a disclosure, I do currently work for the fruit company but not on this or anything adjacent and I’m not speaking for it in anyway.
azinman2 3y ago
Take a look at this: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?bIsQueue=false&bIsRejected=false&sClass=vendor&iId=110&sAction=view&sTitle=View+Developer https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?bIsQueue=false&bI... Now a bunch of these are old ratings, but it should give you some sense of the history (current state?) of things. I think maybe Word works well enough (?) just because there are a lot of eyes on it. Everything else? Less so.
- SuperNinKenDo 3y ago
  Bloody hell, glad I didn't buy that recent Corel focused Humble Bundle on a whim. I was that close.
nialv7 3y ago
Codeweavers is the main company working on Proton... Seems like a lot of people aren't aware of that.

olliej 3y ago

Proton is Linux only and it seems crossover has a Big Mac focus so it’s seems reasonable for them to match proton. [edit: I’m leaving the autocarrot capitalization of Big Mac in place :)]

SuperNinKenDo 3y ago
Oh interesting, that hadn't occured to me, but they do mention macOS a lot in their materials, so that makes sense. From what I've read, here and elsewhere, Apple doesn't really reciprocate contributions to WINE, so embedding improvements aimed at smoothing out the experience on that platform inside the commercial wing on WINE development makes some sense in general. Thanks, their whole model makes a bit more sense to me now.
- olliej 3y ago
  As I understand it, but to be clear I’m not involved in the wine community, codeweavers does a lot of the Mac contributions. I know apple has game porting toolkit or whatever they call it, which is essentially proton for Mac (built in wine etc) but I don’t know to what extent that is upstreamed. As a disclosure, I do currently work for the fruit company but not on this or anything adjacent and I’m not speaking for it in anyway.

azinman2 3y ago

Take a look at this: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?bIsQueue=false&bIsRejected=false&sClass=vendor&iId=110&sAction=view&sTitle=View+Developer https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?bIsQueue=false&bI... Now a bunch of these are old ratings, but it should give you some sense of the history (current state?) of things. I think maybe Word works well enough (?) just because there are a lot of eyes on it. Everything else? Less so.

SuperNinKenDo 3y ago
Bloody hell, glad I didn't buy that recent Corel focused Humble Bundle on a whim. I was that close.

nialv7 3y ago

Codeweavers is the main company working on Proton... Seems like a lot of people aren't aware of that.