• starman@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I mostly agree with your comment, but…

    the fact that Wine was around for 25 years before that just goes to show that no one else was willing to do that.

    Remember that Wine is built by community of volunteers (afaik, tell me if I’m wrong), and they don’t have as much resources as company worth billions USD.

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      1 year ago

      A lot of the development for Proton has also been community-based. Aside from whatever Steam has done to directly improve Proton, just creating the Steam Deck, and SteamOS has brought so much more attention and focus to improving it to an extent that probably wouldn’t have happened otherwise. It gave people a reason to volunteer their time to improve it.