Valve has forked and packaged up Wine to help Linux users play games: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
This is FOSS working as intended: freedom to try other things, but contributing upstream!
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Learning software development through playing and contributing to a MUD: https://tashian.com/articles/how-i-learned-to-program/
I've written difftastic packaging instructions: https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/packaging_difftastic.html
The different distros have taken different approaches, so I'm trying to help with common gotchas — don't forget the man page!
Feedback welcome, especially if you've ever packaged something 🙂
It's odd that games often show the hours played, but I've not seen this in other apps.
"You've spent 20 hours talking to this person." Would this be a usage deterrent? If so, why do many games offer it by default?