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WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR OTHER LAUNCHERS (lutris/bottles/heroic/legendary,etc):

everyone can use + contribute to the same protonfixes, no more managing individual install scripts per launcher
everyone can run their games through proton just like a native steam game
no steam or steam binaries required
a unified online database of game fixes (protonfixes)

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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago

That's great news. Praise be the glorious Eggroll!

[–] patatahooligan@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is great. Proton is getting a lot of testing just based on Steam's userbase and it is backed by Valve. We also have a lot of data on proton's performance and potential game-specific fixes in the form of protondb. Making sure that non-Steam launchers can use all that work and information is crucial to guaranteeing the long-term health of linux gaming. Otherwise it is easy to imagine a future where proton is doing great but the other launchers are keep running into problems and are eventually abandoned.

One thing that I am curious is how this handles the AppId. If this AppId is used to figure out which game-specific fixes are needed, then it will have to be known. Do we have a tool/database that figures out the AppId from the game you are launching outside of Steam?

[–] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago

I hope it makes pirated games easier to launch on Linux. 👍 I've got about 5 different games I've yet to play cos I can't be arsed looking into Proton command line flags.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But can we run it on windows

[–] Bene7rddso@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago

With WSL it might be possible

[–] Rezzit@feddit.de -1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

relevant xkcd

[–] lelgenio@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

520

[–] Woovie@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Finally, a good meme to call out this NPC response

[–] ErKaf@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Exakt denselben witz habe ich auf dem Zwietracht von Proton-GE auch gemacht haha

Lass uns schütteln die Hände

[–] Rezzit@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Kennste ja: 2 Dumme, 1 Gedanke. xD

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Öhm, warum reden wir hier eigentlich Deutsch?

[–] ErKaf@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ups ich habe nur Reznik gesehen und wusste dass er Deutscher ist. Habe voll übersehen wo wir hier eigentlich sind. War ausversehn.

[–] Nobsi@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago

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