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misterbishop on Jan 22, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Valve Breaks the Shackles of Proton

The lesson of the last 5 years (!) of Steam on Linux is that not all native games work with Linux. MOST of the high profile (aaa budget) ports are shoddy. Virtually none of them run with equivalent Windows performance (let alone better performance as Valve initially claimed). Proton is the best hope for AAA Linux gaming for the foreseeable future.

dleslie on Jan 22, 2019 | [–]

And they're often abandoned well before the Windows version has its last patch, and many cannot play multiplayer with Windows players.

arwineap on Jan 22, 2019 | [–]

For example, it was incredibly disappointing that company of heros did not support crossplay... The pool of players is significantly smaller.

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