Valve Introduces Proton Next
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Valve Introduces Proton Next
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#2How is this different from Proton Experimental?
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#3I had to go figure out what Proton is:
"Proton is a tool for use with the Steam client which allows games which are exclusive to Windows to run on the Linux operating system. It uses Wine to facilitate this."
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#4How is this different from Proton Experimental?
Proton Next - Candidate build for the next major version release.
Proton Experimental - "Bleeding edge" builds.
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#5It is incredible how well proton works on the steam deck.
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#6How much of Proton fixes go back to Wine and vice versa?
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#7It is incredible how well proton works on the steam deck.
As one of my buddies put it, 'it is basically magic'. I agree. Compared to manual fiddling, it is amazing. For the proton work alone, Steam got a lot of goodwill from me.
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#8I had to go figure out what Proton is: "Proton is a tool for use with the Steam client which allows games which are exclusive to Windows to run on the Linux operating system. It uses Wine to facilitate this." https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
It has come a long way. When running through Proton, the game and all its middleware are supported seamlessly. Take a look at https://www.protondb.com
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#9It is incredible how well proton works on the steam deck.
As one of my buddies put it, 'it is basically magic'. I agree. Compared to manual fiddling, it is amazing. For the proton work alone, Steam got a lot of goodwill from me.
Same here.
I almost went to GOG, but Proton pulled me back to Steam very quickly.
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#10Proton is just a UI/service/convenience layer for Wine, right? So when there's specific fixes for games, are those actually Wine updates?