In the short term the answer is a clear “yes”, as it allows players to play nearly all Windows games on Linux without modifications, and game developers to ship their games on Linux without any extra costs.

How does that make Proton bad?

[–] Mesophar@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's the dual-edged sword of making it more accessible now with a workaround, which disincentives developers from building with actual support in mind.

So Proton is allowing more people to switch to Linux for gaming, which is good! However, instead of putting pressure on developers to make Linux versions of games and software they can just use Proton, so they will continue making only Windows versions, which is bad.

[–] Murdoc@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wow, now you've got me imagining this weird future where everyone has switched to Linux for desktop use because of how bad windows has become, but developers still make games only for windows because of Proton. 😵‍💫

[–] Bene7rddso@feddit.de 1 points 7 months ago

When Linux has comparable market share we will have some Linux-only games and Windows runs them in WSL

[–] s12@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 months ago

I was focusing on that paragraph specifically. It’s written like accessibility is a clear bad thing. I was wondering if it was a typo.

[–] soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 months ago

Sorry, I was a bit confuse. I meant, in the short term Proton is definitely a good thing.