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Devs don't support anything, they target Windows as if Proton did not exist.

It is up to Valve to make it work.

It is a loss for GNU/Linux as gamming platform.

Do you think anyone would be paying for Nintendo and PlayStation consoles, if they were running XBox OS translations, instead of having the games natively target them?

That is why all those cheap Chinese handhelds never go nowhere, being basically MAME devices.

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Lots of dev go out of their way to make sure their games play nice on Steam Deck.

The alternative is that they do not do this at all because it is too much work for too little payoff. Proton is driving real Linux adoption in PC gaming.

Really? Name a AAA game studio that actually activily does anything instead of letting Valve do the work themselves, coming up on their developer blog "We did this for Proton".

Proton is driving the adoption of PC Windows games on Linux.

Assassin's Creed Shadows.

Plenty of other AAA games have made Proton and Deck-specific compatibility considerations

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