Take a chill dude. Don’t use it if you don’t find it useful. You don’t have to question its existence lol.

And about Proton being a product of Valve doesn’t matter when it’s open source—anyone can fork it and continue development (Proton itself is a fork of wine). It’s just if Linux becomes the default for everyone, Valve can enshitify themselves just like any other corporation and thus maybe not allow 3rd party installations or even add a Steam Shortcut. It is great for what it is now but I won’t put all my eggs in one basket; least of all a corpo basket.

Lutris is your answer. https://youtu.be/LZUhBRJwp4M

Cuz I don’t want to be dependent on a corporation. If, god forbid, Valve starts to enshitify, I don’t want to go back 10 years in Linux Gaming. And Lutris works just as fine as Steam. So having options is always nice IMO.

Game Developers who don’t want to support Linux are not serious about developing games but getting more dollars for each dollar spent so an imaginary Stock Exchange line can go up.