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1. stavro+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-12-03 23:58:27
Oh that's very interesting. Given the large compatibility tables I see, I thought Proton had to cater to almost a majority of games.
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2. Telane+81[view] [source] 2025-12-04 00:06:25
>>stavro+(OP)
It's the Pareto principle doing its thing. 80% of games were fixable by not a whole lot of fixes to Wine (I mean, it's still a lot of work, but once the work is done, you don't need to redo it for 1500 other games), while the remaining 20% are out there doing weird stuff and needs manual fixes of some kind.

If you don't do anything weird, you land in that 80% and everything works as it should. With developers noticing SteamOS being a thing, more of them start doing sanity checks to make sure it works on Linux, and that 80% starts growing to 90%.

Then there's the kernel anti-cheat that's unfixable though, which pulls the percentage down again.

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