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Re:Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux by sandworm101 on Friday March 05, 2021 @10:32AM (#26357920)
Proton is not a ground-up valve product. It is an implementation of WINE, a project that has been around for a long while. Valve made it pretty and easy to use, integrating wine into their launchers, but it isn't entirely their project.

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton

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Re:Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux by Ericson2314 on Friday March 05, 2021 @09:29PM (#26364687)
Valve has been contracting https://www.codeweavers.com/, the main people behind Wine, a good deal, so they do deserve more credit than at might first appear.
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