For what it's worth, I was just able to fire up the first episode and at least get to the first screen with Steam, using Proton 9.0-4 (I did have to select the Proton version manually). Not sure if this "anthology" version would work, but if it's the same underlying engine then I don't see why not.
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Good enough for me. We cannot pursue perfection, hence this is more than OK.
I also noticed lot of pure Windows titles on GOG - using plain old wine (nor proton per-se) - are fully playable on linux (Ubuntu 24.04, to be precise, although this worked on latest Debians as well).
Probably this is most we can expect while supporting Open Source as well...
Probably this is most we can expect while supporting Open Source as well...
Indeed. When the community decided to embrace WINE/Proton as the path forward, it traded focus on native executables for focus on Microsoft compatibility layers. Not saying that's necessarily a good or bad thing, just that it's the direction the community has gone.
For what it's worth, personally I think it's the right choice; the endgame is native builds but you need installed base to get that and gamers are never leaving Microsoft if it means giving up 90% of games.