Hi, I'm involved in this project. If anyone here is a skilled C programmer interested in getting paid to improve Wine and Proton, please throw me an email (see profile or use your detective skills to find my work email).
Yep! I worked at CodeWeavers during Proton development and we were basically contracted by Valve to build the whole thing for them. Although if projects like that interest you, the work on supporting Wine on MacOS after they drop 32 bit application support is amazing!
The executable in /Applications is 32-bit, but it's just a launcher for the real Steam app in ~/Library/Application Support/Steam/Steam.AppBundle which is 64-bit.
Ahh thank you! I knew I was missing something... I'd get the alert message, then the Steam app would seemingly close and re-launch. I wonder why it is architected like that.
I guess that it's like that in order to be able to update the executable for non-privileged users (who can't write to /Applications), which could be e.g. kids' user accounts in the family computer.
Beggars can't be choosers. There are way more people that want to write ethical freedom respecting code than there are people willing to pay for it. If I had an option to write Rust for a megacorp to fuck over customers or write C for the betterment of humanity you can be sure I'd go with the later.
Quick question if you don't mind - what do the valve guys think of Windows Subsystem for Linux ? It's tempting even for me (who has used only Linux for 20 years now).
Or Windows gamers for that matter - it's not like there are a bunch of closed-source linux games that need WSL to run on Windows. I am puzzled by the assumption that Valve engineers somehow have a (professional) opinion on WSL
Is this really a threat? Because I haven't seen a shred of evidence to believe that Windows is going to block Steam. Hell they are actually releasing Xbox games on Steam!
But I guess Valve is flush with cash to throw at their hobby projects.
It was a big threat on Windows on ARM which only allowed you to install applications from the windows store or use an extremely slow x86 emulation layer. Microsoft blocked any browser from the windows store that was not based on the edge engine so Edge was the only usable browser available on ARM because emulated browsers simply cannot compete. Of course in the end it never went anywhere and even Edge's engine is about to be replaced with Chromium.
Nowadays Windows on ARM is basically the second coming of Windows RT, a massive failure. The biggest difference is that this time they decided to not produce a million devices too many.
Perhaps it's not going to block Steam because they have an escape path. They were leaning heavily into UWP right around the time Steam for Linux became a big thing.
> Filesystem performance is closer to windows than linux
Well.. filesystem performance is just bad under WSL period. Much worse than native NTFS or ext4 on the same hardware. It's so far from both that saying it's closer to one or the other doesn't _really_ make sense.
