Post #1480442
2026-04-04 13:26 UTC
@unknownuniverse @thelinuxEXP Doesn’t matter that it’s Proton, because it drives market share. Once you hit 30, 40, 50, 60 … maybe even 70 % market share in the future, no one will bother with Proton. Most people are using Linux for gaming at that point, so they better make native games to satisfy the *main* audience.
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@unknownuniverse@noc.social 2026-04-04 13:46
@Arcticulate @thelinuxEXP I get the optimism, but I worry we’re building a house on a foundation someone else owns. If we hit 70% share entirely because of Proton, developers have even less incentive to write native code—they'll just target Windows and let the translation layer deal with the mess. It's a win for accessibility, sure, but a bit of a nightmare for long-term platform independence. We don't want to become just a 'Windows-compatible' kernel, do we?