I promise I won’t go more into the tech bits meant for developers
I truly hate authors who speak down to me.
Often you see that in blog posts where the author themselves doesn’t fully understand the details.
“I’m healthy, I eat fruit, vegetables, etc.”
“What’s etc.?”
“Other things”
“Like what?”
“… Let’s move on.”
It’s annoying all the articles are focusing on performance versus stock wine here when basically everyone uses Proton or a fork of it anyway, which has had fsync for years now that does similar performance uplift.
The story here should be that we’re getting fsync level performance with fewer bug and it can be upstreamed to wine. There is no relevant performance uplift for Proton users, but I guess performance gets clicks so that’s the story all the press are going with.
I can’t believe stock wine is still so bad with so many games. GTA5 is still unplayable with a keyboard, it just freezes for 5 seconds with every single keypress.
I would just run external games through steam with proton if you have those kinds of issues.
You don’t even have to do that.
Wine managers like Bottles make it extremely easy to slap on whatever fixes and wine variants you might need.
