As much as I would love Linux native builds of games, this also makes a lot of sense. I consider it a completely acceptable solution to the problem.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

I suspect paradox are just taking a fuck you attitude here, but that’s a separate point.

Like it or not, Linux is a very small part of the gaming ecosystem. We also now have proton, that makes it far less of an issue.

Give all this, I would rather a reliable windows version, with an eye towards not fucking over the proton translation. Any Linux version would likely lack a lot of bug testing etc.

The goal is a stable fast game that runs on Linux. How that is achieved is almost irrelevant. At this point, asking them to play nice with our translation layer is the best option.