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diathyesterday at 11:43 PM1 replyview on HN

It's way harder to support Linux than Windows from a developer's perspective. Proprietary vs. open source drivers, approach to driver updates (rolling release vs. stable distros), 5 trillion incompatible glibc versions, X11 vs. Wayland etc, janky sound systems with varied support across Linux distributions (Pulse, Alsa, PipeWire), no ABI compatibility guarantee etc.


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avianlyrictoday at 1:07 AM

What has that got to do with Valve providing a compatibility layer so devs can broadly ignore all that nonsense and just target Proton?