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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world -5 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I, on the contrary, prefer it when everyone uses mainstream Wine with winetricks and prefixes so if something doesn't work, you can at least fix it using someone's advice posted on winehq. With Proton it seems that everyone expects stuff to either just work or doesn't bother. The Proton advice is usually as valuable as Windows problems advice.

[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

What are you on about? ProtonDB is full of such advice

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Like I said, similar quality to googling for Windows problems. Reports on WineHQ are sorted by Wine version, OS version, usually involve specific actions taken.

[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That’s exactly how protondb works. And you also get hardware and distro information.

You can search and filter reports by all of the aforementioned criteria for any game that’s listed.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world -5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

OK, it just has utterly degenerate webpage design. I thought those were voluntary additions by users telling what they use, not common format. Inconvenient.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's okay, we don't actually care that you were wrong about something.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, but not about utterly degenerate webpage design

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