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Re:Linux Has Grown into a Viable PC Gaming Platform and the ... by em3rgent0rdr on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @10:23AM (#29650480)
Proton is a fork of Wine. Just more tailored towards steam games.
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Re:Linux Has Grown into a Viable PC Gaming Platform and the ... by brnt on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @12:39PM (#29652543)
actually, proton is two things: wine+dxvk. dxvk is a windows (!) program that translates directx to vulkan. between the two of them theyre all thats needed to run games.

proton is in addition funded and tested thoroughly by a critical audience, linux gamers ;)

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