Why are there so many different Proton versions? Proton 8, Proton 9, Experimental, GE-Proton

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• wiccan2@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For anyone who wants the same info without the ads see: github.com/ValveSoftware/…/Proton-Versions

  And for proton-ge: github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom?tab=r…

  Proton-sarek: github.com/pythonlover02/Proton-Sarek

  The only reason for the article to exist is to have an excuse to serve ads.

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• wiccan2@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Have we really hit the point where we have to explain versioning to people now.

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  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lemmy is a more technical crowd, but many deck owners don’t understand what proton is, or why they might need different versions.

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    • wiccan2@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The article has one sentence on using older versions for better comparability with some games.

      The rest of the article is basically summed up by “bigger number means newer”

      The whole article seemed very surface level and didn’t really give any more info than could be derived from the names of the versions. As for the community forks mentioned people could find much better info just looking at the readme.

      Maybe I’m just too technical but it just feels to me as pointless as an article explaining the difference between hot and cold taps on a sink.

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  • beastlykings@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Everyone has to learn something for the first time. Today’s 10,000 and all that.

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  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    the question about “why keep half a dozen stable versions around” is a legit one, if you are not deeply familiar with the background of the project

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  • jonathan@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why are you gatekeeping so hard bro

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    • jwiggler@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Helps them feel better than others, maybe they have low self esteem or something

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How many software do you keep multiple versions of installed on your computer? How is it not logical to expect the newer version of something to still be able to do what it did before and more?

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      When you change things you might fix some issues but you might also simultaneously create others.

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• Piwix@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Seems like an SEO article. Im all for getting simplified articles easily accessible to the people who pick up a steam deck or the steamos lenovo legion and really do go “whats the difference between proton experimental and proton 7”

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• lustyargonian@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because quantum physics is hard

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• coriza@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yet, not the article nor proton GitHub readme explain which version proton-hotfix is based of. I suppose based on proton-experimental, but then again it also makes sense to be based on proton-stable.

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