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A fun side-effect of the "general" stability of Windows APIs is that Win32/DX has become a very stable and reliable "universal" API for Linux (and other OSes) via the massive amount of work put into Wine/Proton. I keep seeing games drop their Linux-native releases in favor of just shipping for proton.

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The Proton-aware releases often are easier to setup and run better than the Linux-native releases.

That's been my experience as well. EU4's Linux-native release has issues with scaling and cursors on ultrawide monitors. Proton version is flawless.

There's been quite a few cases for me, like Star Citizen for example, where games perform significantly better under Proton with DXVK than it does on Windows!

Yes. Someone blogged about this last year and it generated a lot of discussion here as well.

https://sporks.space/2022/02/27/win32-is-the-stable-linux-us...

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