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Valve's Proton 10.0-4 Released With More Windows Games Now Running On Linux
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Lol. you had to shoehorn that bit about the percentage in, didn't you?
I’m being rage baited by attributing Proton to Valve. Who contributed more to it? Valve, CodeWeavers or volunteers doing it for free?
Valve contracted codeweavers when proton started back in 2016. I would say without Valve, Linux gaming wouldn't be where it is today. Proton is open source, so anyone can fork it and build on it. Pretending Valve didn’t meaningfully fund and push this effort is misleading. Your comments read less like "credit where it’s due" and more like "Steam bad, therefore Valve contributed nothing", which just isn’t an honest framing.
They fund one full time employee to work on it. CodeWeavers has been at it as a whole company since the inception.
„Steam bad because Valve is very consciously doing everything to make an impression that Valve is behind most of advancements in Linux gaming”.
Valve is literally bankrolling it, and putting all their chips behind it, which is pushing it forward much more then it had been.
You're making a problem where there isn't one, enjoy the fruits of their labor.
All their chips behind would likely be enough to employ thousands of Linux devs with money left to spare for a couple of megayachts still.
I dont know much about this situation, do you have source where I could read more about what valve has or hasnt contributed, and them only employing one person to work on proton?
Proton, as the article states, is a Valve project. It's a downstream distribution of Wine, which is a massive collaborative effort involving CodeWeavers, Valve, volunteers, and others. My point was only about the segue into platform fee criticism.
Since you're framing this as 'rage bait,' I'll respectfully disengage here. All the best.
Valve, as in a single paid developer.
This seems to me an application of the 80/20 rule. Valve (and its infrastructure) is taking it the last 20% needed to make it mainstream-viable.