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  • What might simplify your thinking about this is called “Semantic Versioning”.

    You have a big codebase of all kinds of features, but at a certain time you want to release it to be able to differentiate between a point in time and release number so you can tell when a regression happens and address it.

    Proton is released by version to be able to see this exact thing. They keep all the old versions available for users because they know that not every single point release will work for all games, and there will be regressions.

    This allows users to be able to identify a stable working version of Proton for a specific game, and stick to it. If you try to upgrade for a newer release for some reason and find a problem, you can always go back to the previous working version and know for certain it will work without issues.

    For your specific scenario, just check ProtonDB for games and see if people have posted tweaks and config combos for a specific game. Great resource for this exact reason.



  • And if you’re new to this world, my point stands exactly as you’re describing: you don’t buy hardware that is wildly incompatible with everything, and then complain when it doesn’t work. Which is what he’s doing here.

    Yes, I understand he’s familiar with this world through his FOSS efforts, and yes, I get that it worked under X11 (only the display server and not most apps at the time, but I digress), but my point still stands.

    The tone of the writing is an impatient “I’M STILL WAITING OVER HEEEERE”, and the response should be “Valid, but you’re going to continue waiting, so deal with it.” because UNLESS you intend to help contribute and fix the problem yourself, you’re at the whim of capacity of the project that is working on whatever features you need working. You’re getting it for free, not contributing, and still complaining.

    I find nothing more insufferable than people who do this exact same thing, and are extreme outliers to begin with. You know how many people have 8k monitors even to this day? Less than 1%, and I’ll wager that the vast majority of them don’t run in 8k resolution, because why? Literally nothing you’re going to touch - even in video production - is going to use it.