Basically the title

      • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        29·
        2 months ago

        Browser too, and the whole activeX, and DirectX api system to practically force windows only development.

        • prole
          11·
          2 months ago

          Yeah, same with gaming until Proton came along

          • Mactan@lemmy.ml
            22·
            2 months ago

            for the millionth time they get to stand on the shoulders on all the wine development that came before it. and now we have to reckon with the bullshit of proton patches that never go upstream to make wine better for all

            • prole
              4·
              2 months ago

              for the millionth time

              Why are you mad at me? Have I ever even interacted with you before?

              Calm down.

            • SolunaEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              Tbf if wine were released under regular GNU instead of LGPL, Valve wouldn’t have been able to make Proton proprietary, and so their contributions would also be open source. It is unfortunate that this is the situation, but by using the LGPL license WINE basically permitted this, no?

                • SolunaEnglish
                  4·
                  2 months ago

                  Okay my bad, I think I just misunderstand BSD-3 and read somewhere that Proton is Valve’s proprietary software. In terms of open source software, the only licenses I’m really familiar with are GNU, Apache, and MIT. So I read one thing online saying Proton was proprietary and assumed BSD-3 was a proprietary license without looking into it further.

            • IceFoxX@lemm.ee
              1·
              2 months ago

              Criticism may be justified, but without Proton, how far would wine have come? Without Steamdeck + proton, gaming would still be a no-go for linux and absolutely not worth mentioning. So fewer users would have switched to linux.

              OK let go back and bring wine forward … Maybe it will be something in 10-20 years ( well for released titles and not future Titels.)

              • Mactan@lemmy.ml
                2·
                2 months ago

                Coincidently one of the things they list (named pipes) as an improvement is something I’ve had a nuisance with for years. there’s multiple things that I would love wine to have that it does not but proton does

    • SolunaEnglish
      13·
      2 months ago

      :O The Archive! It’s back online!! WOOOOO