<story><title>Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Valve-Steam-Play-Proton-Linux</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acd</author><text>This is good for gaming on Linux!&lt;p&gt;Future prediction:
Hackers reverse engineer Microsoft SQL server for Linux compatibility DLLs and adds better Wine support. Microsoft will eventually start selling a commercial Windows 10 compatibility layer for Linux. Reason Microsoft does not found main revenue through operating sales but of online cloud adoption and subscriptions. Microsoft of today is much more open source friendly than before.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Xenix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Xenix&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Windows_Services_for_UNIX&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Windows_Services_for_UNIX&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BuildTheRobots</author><text>&amp;gt; Hackers reverse engineer Microsoft SQL server for Linux compatibility DLLs and adds better Wine support. Microsoft will eventually start selling a commercial Windows 10 compatibility layer for Linux&lt;p&gt;I like the optimism but I honestly believe it&amp;#x27;s going to go the other way round.&lt;p&gt;Based on Microsoft s EEE strategy from the past, combined with the way they&amp;#x27;ve pushed for SecureBoot on x86 and Arm and the (re-)rise of the WSL, I honestly expect it to get even more difficult in the future to boot a linux kernel on your own hardware.&lt;p&gt;Once all the usual suspects work properly under WSL I think more hardware lockdowns are going to come into place combined with phrases like &amp;quot;what do you need a kernel for? just boot windows kernel and use your linux userland and stop complaining!&amp;quot;. The rise of GNU&amp;#x2F;Windows might well be coming...</text></comment>
<story><title>Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Valve-Steam-Play-Proton-Linux</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acd</author><text>This is good for gaming on Linux!&lt;p&gt;Future prediction:
Hackers reverse engineer Microsoft SQL server for Linux compatibility DLLs and adds better Wine support. Microsoft will eventually start selling a commercial Windows 10 compatibility layer for Linux. Reason Microsoft does not found main revenue through operating sales but of online cloud adoption and subscriptions. Microsoft of today is much more open source friendly than before.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Xenix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Xenix&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Windows_Services_for_UNIX&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Windows_Services_for_UNIX&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tonyedgecombe</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Microsoft of today is much more open source friendly than before.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;When it&amp;#x27;s in their interest to be so, don&amp;#x27;t expect them to start giving away their bread and butter.</text></comment>