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valve as champion of "gaming on Linux" rant 

"Proton" has done wonders for Linux gaming.
Today I found out you can't filter for native linux titles in your steam library anymore. Valve's Hubris has wasted a lot of my girlfriend's time thinking that a compatibility layer yoinked from the community for windows games is "native". It is almost like they want people to think "Linux" is buggy shitware because they rushed a hardware project out to market filling in all the tech gaps with community passion projects and duct tape.

Wine setup correctly with all the bells and whistles is great, but treating it like "native" and denying it has an impact on people when most games have at least *performance issues* under Wine, if they work at all, makes the platform look bad as a whole. Linux isn't bootleg windows simulator, you can actually make games and ship for it, and a growing number actually do have Linux native ports! Let me see them! I hate how Valve treats them in comparison to a flood of legacy games and new shitware games that don't run consistently.

Obviously fuck Valve for so many other reasons, but *this* really pissed me off today. Thanks for the "Just Breaks" experience GabeN

re: valve as champion of "gaming on Linux" rant 

@thufie I absolutely loathe having to check a game I want to play on protondb before I even consider buying it, if I see easyanticheat, I just immediately know it’s not gonna work and then all my friends who want me to play it are gonna keep pestering me to “just install windows”

I don’t want to have to set up a dual boot just so I can play a game they’re only gonna be interested in for a week and then move on to another one

re: valve as champion of "gaming on Linux" rant 

@thufie I completely agree with you, I really hate how implicit steam is when it comes to running games on linux.

Hilariously though, I’ve had very much the opposite experience wrt native games - they’re usually a broken mess! I wish they’d make the divide between proton and native more obvious, so I can switch to proton if the native version is borked. It’s just better for everyone if they don’t try to hide it.
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