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How shit gaming had been on it, for the majority of it's lifetime.
Yeah do people not remember the pre proton era? Or before the push in the 2010s that got indie games to support Linux?
Linux gaming has seen wild changes in just the last 5 years.
Yeah for tech savvy people it wasn't a big deal. Download Windows game on the interwebs, check winehq and then game.
But it wasn't always plug and play. Also I always was flexible on what games I wanted to play.
Even then, it often crashed or glitched. I mean it was amazing for me at the time anyway, running Windows games on Linux. But nowadays it's on a different level.
I absolute do remember the pre proton era, but for Linux users it should have been common knowledge that Proton exists and worked pretty well for years. And it's certainly less effort to try at least a little to get a game working you already own (by looking it up on protondb if it doesn't work right away) than to boot into Windows specifically for gaming.
I AM VERY BADASS
Yes, so badass, clicking "install" on a Steam game.