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WINE was a thing for years and generally worked okay for a lot of things. I was playing Fallout 3 on WINE well before Valve got involved with minimal tweaks or

WINE was a thing for years and generally worked okay for a lot of things. I was playing Fallout 3 on WINE well before Valve got involved with minimal tweaks or DIY effort. Proton with Steam works flawlessly for most things including AAA games like RDR2 and it's great, but don't forget that WINE was out there making it work for a while

bayindirh 1y ago
> WINE was a thing for years and generally worked okay for a lot of things. Yes, but Valve's involvement handled "the last 10% takes the 90% of the time" part of WINE, and that's a great impact, IMHO. Trivia: I remember WINE guys laughing at WMF cursor exploit, then finding the exploit works on WINE too and fix it in panic, and then bragging bug-for-bug compatibility with Windows. It was hilarious. Also, WINE allowed Linux systems to be carrier for Windows USB flash drive virii without being affected by them for many years.
jrm4 1y ago
But this is a perfect example of one of those "90/10" esque ideas. Even if Wine was 90% there technologically, the most important 90% is really that last 10.