>>716051892>linux gaming is too dependent on steamNo more then Windows. Steam is just using Wine to run games, and there is nothing to prevent you from just running games with Wine outside of Steam. About half of the games on my PC are not in Steam at all.
Did you mean to say that that Linux gaming is dependent on Valve? Since even then, Proton is not that much tech from Valve themselves, its mostly just pre-packaging in tech that was from other project with a hand full of extra Valve packages. Even then, its all open source, its not like their Linux contributions don't go up steam.