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I don’t think Proton is Valves endgame for Linux gaming.

It is necessary to kick off SteamOS, but in I’d guess they are betting on capturing market share with their devices and OS, so that developers will put in the time to do Linux ports.

Proton is always a catch-up game and can’t seem to be the end-all solution.

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Do they care about Linux ports when Proton works just as well if not better?

And plenty of Linux ports of games don't work on modern Linux anymore because of dependencies. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30490570 from just this week.

If Valve managed to acquire a good marker share, developers will care about having something that works in Valve's SteamOS, Microsoft will push developers to native ports if they tried to degrade Proton ports, so I think they'll prefer to keep their control over DirecX.

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