• Ricaz
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    1 year ago

    Proton and Wine are largely the same thing. Proton just has DXVK built in as well as a bunch of Valve-made patches.

    Valve had greatly accelerated Wine development. I still run many games off pure Wine with manually added DXVK.

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        1 year ago

        Proton is just Valve’s fork of Wine. It had a lot of game-specific patches, to make all the Steam games work better.

        Wine isn’t meant specifically for games - you can run most Windows applications in it. It’s just translations of Windows syscalls to Linux equivalents, to put it simply.