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7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux

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7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux

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Steam Hardware@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 6 months ago

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It has been 7 years since Valve revealed Proton, their compatibility layer to run Windows games on Linux systems. What an incredible time it has been.

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…and nobody mentions WINE that did the work for years, before it was boosted by Proton development.

We were playing Windows games before Proton, although the library was far smaller and nothing rarely worked without some extra steps.

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