That's some good nostalgia, thanks
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Hah, back when PlayOnLinux was the "easy" way to run windows software.
The ready made scripts almost never worked. But it was a good effort that paved the way for Lutris
Heroes of Newerth? Amnesia? Yep checks out
From the time we used Wine instead of Proton :)
Its somewhat the same today. Its just packaged wine, into proton. Valve pays for Proton a.k.a Wine releases. TLDR: Steam didnt make Linux gaming viable. Wine did, Steam just made it more mainstream and easier to implement.
And we used PlayOnLinux to install Windows games using CDs and DVDs
Lmao I love how widgets totally flopped and now have made a huge comeback on mobile.
With all those conky widgets I bet I could middle click on that desktop and drag the mouse to flip the desktop cube!
I wish I also had screenshots of my desktops from back in the days. It would reflect my own evolution.
Ah, I miss Unity
Not really having related but here's me playing with Linux back in 2008 https://youtu.be/JzZJkNrIxV4
Steam's native Linux client first released in 2012, granted, there weren't a lot of compatible games at that point
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