• simsalabim@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    because Proton made devs forgo Linux native versions.

    To be fair, a lot of the “native” linux version run worse than the proton version does. Just look at Witcher 2.

    • misk@sopuli.xyzOP
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      2 days ago

      IIRC Witcher 2 used eON which is also some sort of translation mechanism. But yeah, native port is not a guarantee of stability. Wine/Proton is a guarantee that you’ll be losing performance on overhead due to those being a reverse engineered reimplementation of Windows libraries. It can be mitigated due to Linux being more performant and/or less bloated with adware. Regardless of all of this, we should be making comparisons to as-is performance because that’s what ultimately matters to end consumer.