Definitely, and I’ll never try and make the argument against that. However what they did was definitely a significant improvement on these pre-existing translation layers.

Linux gaming can be clearly defined as pre-proton and post-proton because it was such a huge improvement to the experience (one-click installs, large number of support in games, gaming via proton counting as a Linux sale in publisher metrics, etc)

And I’m speaking from personal experience, before proton I had a hard time getting pretty much every game I tried to play working on Linux (and tbf a large part of this is probably me fumbling the installation but I’m not an untechnical person either, so I’m sure this was the experience for many)

Go ahead and block me 💀 your post history shows you having this same argument and taking the same action every time.

You defend this point endlessly and the minute the conversation starts to pile up, you block the other person.

✌️ Enjoy the echo chamber you’re creating for yourself

1. Android is, at its core, an open source mobile operating system. What Google has done with it is monopolize all of the software for the platform. There are competitors (read: GrapheneOS, F-Droid) which are also based on the Android Operating System but outcompeted by Googles market position

2. iOS shouldn’t even be in this conversation, not open source & completely walled garden

3. “Whataboutism seems to be an admission of truth these days” HUH? At what point did I engage in whataboutism, i simply pointed to other companies that have set standards for gaming accessibility in the market.

Valve:

1. Has Steam, the largest videogame platform on PC. You claim it’s a monopoly but it’s not because it has direct competitors in Epic Games (Fortnite is not a small game), Riot Games (League and Valorant are not small games), Battle.net (WoW, Hearthstone, Overwatch are not small games), etc

2. Developed the proton translation layer (which you yourself made this post for), and released it open source so anyone can use it. I myself leverage Proton for Linux gaming on a daily basis (I do NOT run SteamOS)

3. Released SteamOS, which is a fork of Arch Linux, as a means of helping gamers break away from the real monopoly of Microsoft/Windows

4. Is not creating a walled garden the likes of which we have seen in every xbox, playstation, and nintendo console. If Epic, Riot, Blizzard, etc wanted to release a launcher for Linux (and subsequently SteamOS) they could. They just choose not to, because they feel it doesn’t make financial sense for them to do that.

Except they wouldn’t be? SteamOS is just fancy Linux, so they wouldn’t be directly gaining market share & I don’t see how them releasing a game only on one (free and open source) platform is suddenly wrong? In a world where virtually every PC game already does that, just for Windows

Have you forgotten about Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony (actual monopolies: controls hardware, software, marketplace, etc)

Damn, I didn’t know it got cancelled. Was pretty exciting to see a new player in the life sim genre.

Hope this isn’t the same fate that’s in store for Paralives

Yeah this assumes you chose bay, and that max DIDNT learn her lesson about time travel.

Presumably these are the reasons DONTNOD didn’t make a sequel, Deck Nine taking over the franchise never sat right with me

I’m sure storage environment matters though?

Yeah good catch LMAO

Perhaps, but on the other side of that coin: Because valve doesn’t have legal obligations to make money snd increase shareholder value, they put a lot of money elsewhere. The products they create are awesome (literally the best launcher on PC, Tim Sweeney is probably upset because his is ass) and invest heavily in things better for gamers:

• digital returns were huge when they first rolled out
• (IMO) spearheading game streaming with steam in home streaming & the steam link
• creating awesome games and not milking them for perpetual profit (other than maybe in game items but i don’t want to have this discussion)
• investing heavily in alternative ways to play (steam machines, aforementioned steam link, VR/index, steam controller, steam deck)
• legitimately spending money to make it possible to game on Linux, reducing gamers reliance on Microsoft/Windows

The guitar hero mode of Fortnite is so upsetting because i fucking love guitar hero, and want to support the development (& more importantly new controllers)

But fuck epic games, and clone hero runs perfectly on Linux

Why are you against them advocating for the industry, promoting jobs, and recognizing the significance of the videogame market?

pushing politics onto the industry

Is this just your insecurity talking because they want to promote gender diversity in the job market?

promote equality in the video games sector to ensure gender balance and equal pay

I’m not sure about that, it doesn’t make sense that valve would have two different board designs for the steam deck & a quick Google search shows many videos walking through the upgrade