Let's talk about the current state of Gaming on Linux! I was watching The Game Awards ceremony last week, when I realised that more than a half of all nomine...
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Valve has not been pulling their weight. Hiring people and letting the community work on Proton isn’t a good thing. GitHub history shows zero work on Valve employees or developers of Proton. Only the community has updated the system not Valve, don’t give credit to lazy cheapskates.
Hiring people and letting the community work on Proton isn’t a good thing
How so? They literally hire people to work on Proton. That’s exactly how FOSS should work as it relates to for-profit companies. Source:
Griffais says the company is also directly paying more than 100 open-source developers to work on the Proton compatibility layer
So they may not be Valve employees, but they’re paid by Valve (I suppose as contractors?), which is essentially the same thing. So it seems they’re throwing money at the problem, and reserving their internal talent to work on the graphics stack.
Valve has not been pulling their weight. Hiring people and letting the community work on Proton isn’t a good thing. GitHub history shows zero work on Valve employees or developers of Proton. Only the community has updated the system not Valve, don’t give credit to lazy cheapskates.
How so? They literally hire people to work on Proton. That’s exactly how FOSS should work as it relates to for-profit companies. Source:
So they may not be Valve employees, but they’re paid by Valve (I suppose as contractors?), which is essentially the same thing. So it seems they’re throwing money at the problem, and reserving their internal talent to work on the graphics stack.
Again, one company controls the entire development process for even allowing games to play on Linux. It should never come to this.