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I still haven't looked this up yet, so is Wine now Proton? Can you share the history here?
by ElijahLynn 4y ago
I still haven't looked this up yet, so is Wine now Proton? Can you share the history here?
- pfych 4y agoProton is Valves fork of Wine with optimisations made specifically for playing games. Proton is built into Steam for linux and should "just work" with any game purchased through Steam. It's also possible to use proton like standard Wine and run any Windows application outside of Steam.
- alpaca128 4y agoA few years ago Valve integrated Wine directly into Steam under the name Proton, and started some serious development work on it. As a result you can now play thousands of Windows games on Linux by just clicking "play" in Steam and maybe a bit of tweaking now and then. Years later Valve recently launched the Steam Deck which makes use of all this. It's not perfect, of course, many games still don't work at all, but if you only know Wine you will be surprised how much better the compatibility and experience is now.
- sophacles 4y agoI'm glad others have answered because I didn't know (and to my point above, it's good enough that i don't have to know!)