Tom Coxon
Sure would be lovely if Valve released a reverse-Proton so I can happily develop on Linux and never touch Windows again
Mar 4 at 11:50amWeb
Show threadAndy PriceMar 4
@tccoxon I'm genuinely curious about what use case would require a reverse-Proton.
Show threadTom CoxonMar 4
@andyprice I think the main one would be enabling developers to move away from Windows. I moved away years ago, but I still have to boot the cursed dark pattern OS occasionally to build the engine I'm using
Show threadAndy PriceMar 4
@tccoxon Ah I see. I guess it would be a headache to build the engine under Wine/Proton. If a Linux build of the engine can output game builds for Windows that might be a solution but I suppose you'd still need to test that the game works on Windows. Tricky one.
Show threadJoel AutersonMar 4
@tccoxon how far can you get with mingw32 and so on? I mostly just rely on github actions these days to do my windows builds but I wonder if it’s possible to build a toolchain
Show threadTom CoxonMar 4
@joel I tried a couple of years ago. Back then at least Godot 3 built with mingw had bugs VS builds didn't, and you've still gotta test on windows to find & debug them because wine is sometimes subtly different
Show threadJoel AutersonMar 4
@tccoxon yeah I guess there’s no getting away from testing on the platform if you’re gonna ship on it