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[–] 4 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

"single-handedly" lmao, as if newell is the guy doing all the work and not the valve employees who work for him… or, yknow, the contributors to all the open-source projects steamos is built on

proton and steamos would be nowhere today without the decades of work by the WINE/DXVK contributors, and the myriad of other open-source projects that make Linux into what it is. all valve did was add their proprietary client on top of that (as well as fund the development of proton, tbf, i'm thankful for them on that one… but again, that work was done by valve employees and contributors, not the billionaire CEO)

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    as if newell is the guy doing all the work

    He's the one who makes all the decisions. That's what matters here.

    proton and steamos would be nowhere today without the decades of work by the WINE/DXVK contributors

    And Proton wouldn't exist at all without Valve.

    all valve did was add their proprietary client on top of that

    That's completely false.

    that work was done by valve employees and contributors, not the billionaire

    The billionaire is the one who told them to do it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    LOL what? You can't be serious...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    proton without newell is proton, but with maybe a different direction

    proton without valve's workers and WINE/DXVK contributors is nothing. it's literally nothing.

    the same goes for basically any projects. the billionaire CEOs are (sometimes, not even always!) the people who take decisions. everyone else does the work. without the CEOs, the same projects would have decisions taken in other ways. without the workers, there would be nothing.

    stop licking billionaire boots.

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