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Re:Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Sta... by tracker1 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @06:18PM (#35547801)
It's funny, I spent the time to get a windows app launching in proton as I was having some issues with the Linux version that I didn't have the time/patience to diagnose and fix myself.

The launcher is called proton-call ... I changed Steam to use the version of proton to match what the app expected, and it worked pretty cleanly. All said, I do wish it were easier for a separate launcher or third party to include proton as a separate package.

https://github.com/caverym/proton-caller

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Re:Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Sta... by surgical_fire on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @06:33PM (#35547967)
Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need.

Thanks for that!

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Re:Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Sta... by blooalien on Monday April 24, 2023 @07:03AM (#35686016)
You might also want to look into "Heroic" (an open source implementation of a GOG and Epic games launcher), and "Lutris", and "Bottles"; all of which can use Proton (and WINE) to launch Windows games and apps on Linux rather easily.
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