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Wine, thus Proton, is not an emulator.
by Xiol32 3y ago
Wine, thus Proton, is not an emulator.
- sho_hn 3y agoI was expecting this reaction, of course, but that's why I specifically wrote "Windows API emulation layer", which it definitely is. The recursive acronym name was chosen first and foremost because it's funny, but also to make the point that it's not emulating all of Windows, and definitely isn't something like dosbox or Dolphin in terms of implementation strategy. This is true, but we shouldn't allow it to break our language, no matter how much we love the clever meme!
- viccuad 3y agoAt that point I would just call it a reimplementation instead of emulation.
- smoldesu 3y agoProton includes DXVK, and that is a high-level emulator for DirectX by most definitions. Wine isn't an emulator because it doesn't have to be.