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[–] warm@kbin.earth 17 points 1 month ago (17 children)

I'd like native builds really, but this kinda discourages that. Then again though, with tiny market share Linux has, it's understandable devs don't support it natively. It's also good to not have to manually enable Proton everytime too.

Oh and I suppose this helps with adoption, one less hurdle for someone to jump through to just play games from their library.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (11 children)

The native builds override the proton comparability layer from running.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 6 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Yeah, but I mean when making a decision to natively support Linux, it becomes more likely to skip it as "proton can just handle it".

So it's likely we won't see more native development until Linux desktop adoption is much much higher.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We will be at 10% very soon and yes that’s a valid concern.

First all games will work on linux and then onward the future games will be made for linux from the ground up.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Where's the source for that? Every statistic I can find puts Linux at about 4% (never above 5 in history) and specifically for Steam, it's at 2.69%.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It’s at 5.1% according to Pornhub. I know people on the internet like to downplay progress lol.

Source

[–] warm@kbin.earth 6 points 1 month ago

Fantastic ahaha

Real talk, "Linux is the only way you can be sure your porn viewing habits aren't getting logged by some corpo in San Francisco" may be a good way to convert some people

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