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Same. I don't care about Proton compatibility for games and only look for native support. Something that works on Proton today might stop working tomorrow if the developer only cares about Windows. Even for games that do work on it, they have all sorts of bugs and glitches that may not be game-breaking but which I'm not going to put up with like a second-class citizen.

>>Arnavi+(OP)
I think Steam Deck is getting to be a large enough market that people are going to care about Linux support in the future (even if via Proton). It may be only 2%ish of the market, but I'll bet those 2% are the high-spending end of the market. The industry has reacted to the Deck by making everything work with it. That's not going to stop. Developers are not "only caring about Windows" any more.

>>Arnavi+(OP)
The problem is that, long term, native games also break if they are not maintained. I trust more the wine/proton developers to fix compat issues than random game publishers.

>>gpdere+5g1
My experience is the exact opposite.

>>Arnavi+(OP)
My impression is the exact opposite. A native version would have to be actively maintained by the developer, and if they're not that interested the native version is likely to have more bugs, lag behind in development, not receive the latest updates, or even stop working altogether. If it's running on Proton, it's out of the devs hands, and it's either Valve or gamers maintaining the right configuration to get the best experience.

At least that's my very limited experience with linux gaming. I started only a couple of weeks ago, but so far, everything works incredibly well.

>>Arnavi+Du1
Around the turn of the millennium a bunch of high profiles games were ported to linux. All of those are hard to run today as rely on libraries that are no longer easily available on a common Linux distro. Yet wine runs the WIN32 version just fine.

In the mid '10s Feral (and a to a lesser extent Aspyr), ported many AAA games to linx. Many of the ports were of quite good quality. I own a few of them, yet occasionally I have to switch to the Proton version as the native one fails to start.

OSS games are the exception of course: being able to produce a good working binary from source make them future proof.