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

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Yeah, same with gaming until Proton came along

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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

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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.)

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for the millionth time

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

Calm down.

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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?

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