I remember when Proton launched it was like magic playing games like Doom and Nier Automata straight from the Linux Steam client with excellent performance. I do not miss the days of having the Windows version of Steam installed separately.

    • @[email protected]
      2•1 year ago

      Thanks, that’s actually valid!
      I think one of the commenters there said it best:

      It’s almost like the maintainers who curate a distribution repository have an important role preventing such a thing…

      Repositories where anyone can release packages to the end-users may be convenient for developers who want more control over what the user gets, but it has a host of negative consequences for the user. It always ends in malware and anti-features getting distributed eventually.

      (link)

      And it looks like it’s being handled decently by Canonical. I don’t like Snap, but I gotta say they’re doing a good job overall