I never got Proton working on my main distro (Debian), so I probably fall into this category. I did use Wine, but Wine is a lot harder to set up, and never ran games as well as Proton did.
Here is my major gaming history, since I started on Linux in 2007. Yes, I really could focus on a single game for years back then.
2007: Starcraft, in Wine
2007: Nethack, native
2011: Morrowind and Oblivion in Wine
2012: Minecraft, native
2014: sgt-puzzles, native
2016: Steam, got hundreds of native Linux games.
2017: Briefly got Steam and Path of Exile working inside a Wine instance.
2022: Steam deck, with the specific purpose of being able to run Proton on it.
2023: New Ubuntu installation, and Proton finally worked on my PC.
Today, I still prefer native Linux games. I mostly only use Proton when peer pressure for a multiplayer game required it. But I never use Wine any more.
I never got Proton working on my main distro (Debian), so I probably fall into this category. I did use Wine, but Wine is a lot harder to set up, and never ran games as well as Proton did.
Here is my major gaming history, since I started on Linux in 2007. Yes, I really could focus on a single game for years back then.
Today, I still prefer native Linux games. I mostly only use Proton when peer pressure for a multiplayer game required it. But I never use Wine any more.