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Just a bit: it's not emulation but compatibility. Proton (and Wine) implement and/or translate calls made by Windows programs without requiring any virtualizati
by xyzzy_plugh 3y ago
Just a bit: it's not emulation but compatibility. Proton (and Wine) implement and/or translate calls made by Windows programs without requiring any virtualization or emulation. In some ways it's closer to an open-source implementation of Windows and its runtime.
After all, Wine (on which Proton is layered atop) stands for "Wine is not emulation."
- dj_mc_merlin 3y agoFair enough, it's in the name. I still treat it as black magic since it just kind of slowly started almost always working in the last 5 years. As if some great curse was lifted and we were freed from the shoddy install scripts and long debug sessions etc. etc.