Has it really been that long? Apparently so. Valve originally announced their rebranding of Steam Play with Proton back on August 21st, 2018. Seems like a good time for a quick reflection being halfway to a decade old now with the tech that gave rise to the Steam Deck.
  • ono@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Getting direct3d and vulkan working with actually useful performance

    They definitely spent an ass-load of money on that

    [citation needed]

    I’m not aware of Valve or Doitsujin ever revealing how much they paid him to make DXVK. I assume they paid him reasonably well, but I doubt it was an ass-load.

    the fact that Wine was around for 25 years before that just goes to show that no one else was willing to do that.

    Or maybe that Wine was a lot more work than the direct3d-to-vulkan shim that was done mainly by one person (now two people).

    Valve definitely helped by funding a few key projects, and packaging them in Steam made them convenient to use, but I think exaggerating their role unfairly diminishes the much larger body of work (done by other people) that makes it possible at all.

    Proton stands on the shoulders of giants.