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> Proton represents Valve's failure No, it represents a market opportunity. WINE (a European led project) effectively makes Win32 and DirectX into Linux APIs.
by breve 11mo ago
> Proton represents Valve's failure
No, it represents a market opportunity. WINE (a European led project) effectively makes Win32 and DirectX into Linux APIs. It works well for games. You can bring those games to Linux with less effort. And Valve can offer SteamOS (based on Arch Linux, also a European led project) for less cost.
You don't need Visual Studio. JetBrains has nice, cross-platform IDEs and they're a European company to boot:
https://www.jetbrains.com/ https://www.jetbrains.com/
- pjmlp 11mo agoNow go see how many game studios use JetBrains. As for Proton, don't build castles on foreign kingdoms => OS/2 "runs Windows better", Netbooks. Lets see how long Valve manages to keep their castle up.
- breve 11mo ago> don't build castles on foreign kingdoms Microsoft is a foreign kingdom to Europe. That's part of the problem.
- pjmlp 11mo agoWhich is why I listed several Microsoft dependent technologies that Europe kingdom guards have to stop the merchants from Microsoft kingdom trade at the borders. Without wagons carrying Windows game boxes, there is nothing at the SteamOS theater to play, and then the actors have to actually come up with their own original plays.
- breve 11mo agoWhat do you believe will happen? Wine exists. It will continue to exist. You can do development with Wine without a copy of Windows: https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Winelib-User's-Guide https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Winelib-User's-G...