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5 years ago Valve released Proton forever changing Linux gaming (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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Happy birthday, Proton!

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The quantum leap for linux gaming was that one guy who wanted to make nier automata work and developed dxvk.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would probably agree to that more than for Proton, but the truth is also that DXVK's further development was largely funded by Valve.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yes, they just started to pay who already worked on all that stuff and had the know how. They paid CodeWeavers to work on proton, started to pay the DXVK person, I’m not sure if the D9VK fork person was paid but I think so, paid the FNA person.

Though DXVK wouldn’t be possible without Vulkan and Valve was involved in Vulkan since the beginning. They also pay people to work on linux drivers since 2014.