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I’m confused. Is steam selling linux games with proton as Linux games? Or do you have to buy the windows version and run it with proton. I got black Mesa on

I’m confused. Is steam selling linux games with proton as Linux games? Or do you have to buy the windows version and run it with proton. I got black Mesa on Linux from steam (works great), but is that a proton game? Last time I browsed Linux games on steam most seemed like they were indie with very few aaa titles.. I do feel Linux has arrived.

account42 7y ago
No, games marked as Linux on the Steam store do not use Proton (by default) but are native (either ported or in some cases wrapped with Wine/whatever by the developer). Black Mesa uses the Source engine for which Valve created their own ToGL wrapper but it's compile-time and much smaller than Wine.