Oh. Well, no duh.
Did they ever explain why this wasn’t on by default before? Was there a practical reason for it at all? It’s one of those things you do once and never think about again, but it’s weird that you even had to.
I guess maybe they thought that having some games try to launch and fail by default would look bad? They’ve recently added compatibility ratings to non-SteamOS Linux systems, so maybe that’s the difference now? Still a weirdly annoying choice originally, though.
It was because Proton was still very new relatively speaking, the understanding being that it’s potentially fussy and buggy enough that only people with an understanding they’re running via a compatibility layer should use it to e.g. reduce game refunds.
I actually really liked the choice. Hopefully we can still at least turn SteamPlay off if we want to, and SteamPlay games are clearly labeled as such vs. native Linux versions.
Its probly still buggy as fuk. I gave up on it.
Bro is on that proton 1.0 build still 😩
Thoughts and prayers 🙏
Microsoft did nothing because they thought they had the upper hand, then they started pleasing investors.
Maybe that wasn’t the best idea. Anyway, I’m using Mint “Cinnamon” since Friday and it’s amazing.
Been two years since I’ve touched Windows. Microsoft isn’t needed.
Just a few more games are needed and some applications and I’d be good to go as well.
Really the only things I’m still using Windows for are work (even if I replace my workstation with Linux, which I’m working on doing, I still have to manage the Windows servers), and simulator games (peripherals work in Linux but often need extra fussing to get them working correctly so for now I’m just sticking with Windows on that machine)
