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  • You must be misremembering things to the extreme.
    Gaming in Linux was utter shit in 2005, and improvements were only crawling forward. When we checked WineHQ for compatibility the average score was bronze “unplayable”.
    Although the Play On Linux program helped a lot and came out in 2008, Linux gaming didn’t improve much until after the Steam Client for Linux was released in 2013.

    I dual booted Windows the first couple of years where Linux was my main OS, ONLY to be able to play games. After a few years I got tired of dual booting and ditched Windows completely. The result was that I gamed very little, and when I did, it was retro gaming.
    Things improved a lot with DXVK, but that did no come out until 2018. Up until then you could almost only play games made with OpenGL, and even that was hit and miss.

    I haven’t seen any Proton propaganda, and fortunately a lot of progress on Proton goes back to Wine, so Wine is also a lot better today even without Proton.

    So Proton does not deserve all the credit, a lot of work has been done before and outside Proton. But Proton does make it dead easy with the Steam client, but today it may not be necessary if you use other tools to mange the Wine configuration on a per game basis. Or if you are an enthusiast that like to do it manually.

    But 21 years ago, even an expert had very little luck except with very few games.




  • Pouring half a trillion dollars into a wishing well, doesn’t make it work.
    The guy is high on his own supply, he thought if he just threw enough Nvidia AI chips into an LLM, that it would achieve consciousness!

    So he can argue that things aren’t going as he hoped they would, but that will probably not happen anytime soon, and he will probably waste even more money and another decade chasing this delusion, just like he did with the Metaverse that was supposed to be “the next internet”!!

    Even if this dream of his is within reach in a not so distant future. Meta is unlikely to be the ones that succeed, because Zuckerberg is the top project leader, and he simply has no idea what he is dealing with.