alt Hacker NewsThis is exactly why Proton feels like the pragmatic path. Native ports are nice in theory, but PC games are rarely just one clean executable anymore
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rightbyte • today at 8:17 AM
EA's horrible launcher comes to mind.
imtringued • today at 8:38 AM
Yeah, PC games are like console cartridges. You plug them into a compatible slot and they work.
I have stopped playing native ports and just prefer Proton when I have the choice. Many devs using Unity & co. just tick the "export to Linux" option and never try the build, which is often much slower or bug ridden.
I was playing Project: Gorgon recently, I was about to refund because it ran terribly on my machine (despite the low end graphics), when I noticed it was using the native build, switched to Proton and got a 200% FPS boost.
As long as I can play on Linux, I don't care what translation layer it goes through.