Comment by friendlyHornet

Seriously, I can't describe the feeling the first time I used Proton back in the summer of 2018.

I remember clearly that I was expecting the usual "everyone says it works but it will probably crash on my computer and I have to dig for a solution for 3 hours"-type of situation that we Linux users are use to

But then I launched a game with it that I had struggled to run with the normal version of wine, and everything worked like magic, with only a few glitches.

A large part of my steam library was working without issues even in 2018 with Proton and it only kept getting better

It was like a dream come true. 2018 was the year I finally deleted my Windows partition because I didn't need anymore

I often marvel st how awesome Wine is, even before Proton. The fact that we can translate Windows programs and sometimes run them without a single problem on a completely different platform speaks to the awesomeness of the software and the people who contribute to it.

And proton takes it to a different level. Proton changed the whole linux gaming situation seemingly overnight. After they released the first public versions, all kinds of new possibilities opened

And the fact that it's all open source and easy to use outside of steam (so not just steam exclusive) and the fact that valve devs are contributing to wine, the linux kernel and lots of open source projects just makes me so happy