Is anyone forking Raze?

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I really have no opinion on Aspyr, but why all the love for Nightdive? They haven't thrown Linux a bone in half a decade and most of their catalogue have source ports, making remastering them worse than pointless. And them having the gall to outright alter Heretic. Not a fan.

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@Alm888

The answer is a well maintained native version should be superior to Proton. The problem is not all such versions have been well maintained. It is like how a C++ application should be faster than Python (and assembly faster than C), but depending on how good the programmer is mileage will vary. A shim or interpeter inherently introduces overhead, but sometimes works as good or even better than something on a lower level but improperly executed.

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Now they just need to put it on GOG and everyone is golden.

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The monkey's paw curls...

@Avehicle7887

They wouldn't need to support all Linux though. Just desktop SteamOS.

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The potential here for new Saturn homebrew is probably pretty high.

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@Purple Library Guy

Quite true, but I suppose the difference is it puts some distance between them and "real" FLOSS Linux applications.

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"You have to remember, we're 99% of the time talking about completely proprietary games, so the open source layer to keep them running makes sense."

I will say this is the only philosophical argument for Proton/Wine that makes any sense to me. The pragmatic argument fails, at least in a theoretical sense, because if the objective is to run the game with the least friction, with the method being irrelevant, you might as well just run it on Windows. If however you accept that GNU/Linux simply is not structured for proprietary programs (and quite probably shouldn't be), containerizing those makes more sense. I would say that getting games running on free software engines (at a minimum) is a better solution than either native binary ports or compatability layers. The fact remains however that cross-platform proprietary development is not actually impossible though, and can in fact lead to more robust and better designed code, so it still seems worth the try (if we have too at all that is). I still think that if Valve truly wanted to put their money where their mouth is, and actually support Linux, they would continue developing Proton while offering a distribution fee discount to developers for games that support SteamOS natively.

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Unity seems kinda meh to be honest. But I suppose Postal 4 is already kind of Postal 2 on modern Unreal Engine.

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That is a shame, but still neat you can play with it I guess.

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