>be valve, 2018, enjoy printing money from pc games on steam

>realize microsoft could easily kill you by making gaming on windows a walled garden like the app store

>what to do?

>the greatest heist of all time: steal every game from windows by porting them all to linux

>"it can't be done!" screams anon

>"it can, anon. we're going to upgrade wine. reimplement the DirectX API and translate it to Vulkan at runtime. same with .NET, everything." says gaben calmly

>"but you'll never get EVERY windows game to run on linux, we can't even get EVERY windows game to run on windows for christ sake!" shouts anon again

>"we don't need to. we just have to get enough, to convince everyone it's going to work."...

>*cassette time skip to 2025*

>proton is amazing. despite translating everything at runtime, it can run AAA games well and sometimes faster than Windows cuz Windows syscalls slow

>pewdiepie switch to linux

>microsoft absolutely seething

>bill gates personally makes emergency call to satya nadella at 3am

>"they did WHAT? how many users did we lose?"

>"about 30% of gamers sir, they keep saying 'linux gaming just works now'"

>valve's masterplan succeeding beyond expectations

>gaben sitting in office made entirely of knives, laughing

>"phase 1 complete, commence phase 2"