Has it really been that long? Apparently so. Valve originally announced their rebranding of Steam Play with Proton back on August 21st, 2018. Seems like a good time for a quick reflection being halfway to a decade old now with the tech that gave rise to the Steam Deck.
  • jsdz@lemmy.ml
    342·
    1 year ago

    It’s what turned me into a Steam user. Still feels like a moral failing using non-free software, but it sure is fun.

  • mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml
    9·
    1 year ago

    This is why i started using linux 4 years ago, without Proton probably wouldn’t consider using it… Thanks valve!

    • sirsquid@lemmy.mlOP
      8·
      1 year ago

      I hear this story quite a lot. “Proton is what allowed me to switch” and yet people are still moaning at me for focusing on Proton and Valve and not Wine directly for the article lol

      • Bogasse@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’d say the best contribution is they managed to build a mainstream commercial service on top of all of this!

  • PeterPoopshit@lemmy.ml
    3·
    1 year ago

    Dang I thought proton was older than that. I remember playing No Man’s Sky on Linux around the time it was released on pc. I don’t remember running a pirated copy of NMS just so I could make it run on wine but maybe I was. (you used to have to do that whether you owned the game or not if you wanted to play on Linux).