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PCWorld article argues that Valve is expanding Steam beyond traditional PCs by making both Windows and x86 architecture optional for running your games. (www.pcworld.com)
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[–] 1 point 6 hours ago (1 child)

The compatibility layer is wine actually, Proton is just an extension of it and is probably open source because wine itself is LGPL.

Valve has been good to us in recent years, by it's a corpo and one day it'll be taken public when GabeN is gone. Let's not fan them too much, eh?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 hours ago

    Yes, it is WINE in its core, but its more than just that. Valve is actively working on it and does not try to make it work with Steam only. Valve could have made Proton only work with a proprietary component that only Steam has. So that the WINE component stays Open Source, but uses some API to connect to proprietary services in example. I mean Steam itself is proprietary and its using Proton and is included in SteamOS in example. FEX is developed by Valve developers and it didn't have to be Open Source.

    So I think it is actually commendable to mention that. It's the only (relevant and large) gaming company that is operating like this.

    one day it’ll be taken public when GabeN is gone

    Well, I'm not talking about the future, but about the recent years and about now. We don't know what the future holds for us, I mean would have anyone seen the Ai hype coming? If Steam sucks in the future, then I will tell it so. But for now, I can fangirl because Steam and Valve is awesome. And they earned it in my opinion. There is no other gaming company to fangirl to (okay with the exception of Projekt Red who owns GOG maybe).

    Let’s not fan them too much, eh?

    What is too much? Mentioning two projects and commend them for making and keeping it Open Source? That is too much?

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