> Kinito Pet now playable
How the fuck is that gonna work
It’s a game that messed with the windows on your desktop and opens file dialogs and stuff (as part of the spooks)
It makes me wonder how it works on the Linux side
As I understand the screenshots, it looks like it is simulating a windows XP desktop but not opening actual windows or messing with the system
What problems do you anticipate? Wine, which Proton is just a modified version of, implements file dialogs. If it didn’t, just about every application that isn’t a game would be broken. Needing to open files is pretty ubiquitous, after all. You need file dialogs for that.
How likely is it that Proton can be used to make native Windows applications (especially CAD-Software) run on Linux? Beside my own desperate desire to do that I guess there are others out there to eagerly switch OS. For the software providers it seems to be a great opportunity to acquired new customers (at first glance).
Proton is well developed for games, but not for apps. But Wine itself is not as well taken cared for. Without tricks, patches and prayers, most complex apps don’t run on it. Or if they load, they crash quickly afterwards.
Which CAD app are you trying to run? If it’s 2D, have you tried QCad/Cam?
Proton is a patched Wine with a translation layer from DirectX to Vulkan. Wine will run a lot of Windows cad software with varying success, particularly older versions and I am not sure how much general desktop applications benefit from the Valve sponsored improvements to gaming. It is a shame these CAD programs weren’t all built on game engines like Unity or Unreal instead of a bunch of Windows APIs with varied levels of implementation.
what does “Desktop Only” mean in this context?
Valve hasn’t heard of imperative mood for changelog entries, it seens.
De facto standard for how to write commit messages (and thus usually changelog messages).
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/tree/Documentation/SubmittingPatches?h=v2.36.1#n181
