Buy a steam deck. It sends a strong signal to Valve to continue supporting Wine and you get a Steam Deck

You always give 30% to Valve and their interests so far are aligned. Everything that's possible within the Steam ecosystem is available outside of it. Maybe things will change in the future, but I doubt we could be getting a better deal.

Value does pay for development on open source projects already.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34061110

This is a fantastic idea. I completely endorse it. I hope a Valve employee sees this.

> if only Steam would add a checkbox on their checkout page to add 10% donation/tip that goes directly to their upstream opensource dependencies

Or how about instead of passing the cost off to users, Steam actually supports them from their own profits? After all, they are profiting from free work.

We can't be pushovers about this.

Great idea!

Such donations might even be tax-deductible revenue for Valve, so even the finance bros should love it.

Although I would prefer if Valve simply commits to a fixed percentage of its Steam fee to be donated...

Paying for a game that inserts rootkits into your kernel feels like paying money to get molested. no thanks.

Idk, kernel anti cheat is a pretty clear sign to me that I should pick a different game to play anyway...

Because anti cheat on linux is completely useless.

I used WINE a lot in the 2000s, mostly for gaming. It was often pretty usable, but you often needed some hacky patches not suitable for inclusion in mainline. I played back then with Cedega and later CrossOver Games, but the games I played the most also had Mac ports so they had working OpenGL renderers.

My first memorable foray into Linux packaging was creating proper Ubuntu packages for builds of WINE that carried compatibility and performance patches for running Warcraft III and World of Warcraft.

Nowadays Proton is the distribution that includes such hacks where necessary, and there are lots of good options for managing per-game WINEPREFIXes including Wine itself. A lot of the UX around it has improved, and DirectX support has gotten really, really good.

But for me at least, WINE was genuinely useful as well as technically impressive even back then.

Also these apps changed, A lot of windows programs were simple executables and I remenber for a moment it was very popular for developers to write portable apps that were just a .exe that you ran,also excel and other programs worked fine, but then microsoft and others started to use msxis or whatever it's called and more complex executable files and it was not longer posible, and microsoft and adobe switched to a subscription based system.

I remember it being surprisingly decent for games back then. Then a lot of games moved to Steam, which made it way harder to run them in Wine. Of course there was later Proton for that, but not on Mac.

Red Box: https://lowendmac.com/1997/red-box-blue-box-yellow-box/

I ran Wine end of 90s to run CS (Half-Life), and I had not only more FPS than Windows. It was more stable as well.

Transgaming! It worked for ons or two games for me, bit it was glorious.

The API underneath the Win32 API, the Windows Native API, is not necessarily stable and therefore not intended for direct consumption by applications.

win32 dates back to 1993. OP doesn't know Windows history. Maintaining backwards compatibility was always a huge priority for Microsoft, even if it couldn't be perfect.

If a program didn't work on a newer version of Windows, there's a good chance it was doing something unsupported.