• Mikina@programming.dev
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    1 day ago

    True, and I use it whenever I can, but GoG is (as far as I know, maybe they contribute) not working on making sure games run on Linux (Proton), or increasing the Linux market share.

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        22 hours ago

        Tbh I have no idea what the current situation of Proton is. I thougjt it’s FOSS, but most of the development is/was done by Valve employees, so people paid for their work, that they made open source, instead of hoping for volunteers.

        Please correct me if I’m wrong, but I assumed the situation is still the same - most of Proton development is done by people with Valve’s resources, and the general public contribution is small-ish --i.e people who do GE-Proton, or other runtimes.

        But the core is work paid for by Valve. Of course, ot might live on wirhoute Valve support, it is a FOSS project, but what I understood, currently, the majority of development time is on Valve payroll.

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          18 hours ago

          Its also based on wine, they can’t fork wine and close source it. But you can fork it and use it anywhere else, just have to make sure any changes you make are also open.

          So Lutris is free to use wine/proton.