Proton by Valve

“Proton already has a product, a competent team, and (had) a lot of soft capital in the form of a good trusted name and goodwill.”

“The reason Wine/DXVK/Proton works so well is because it didn't fracture itself into a thousand downstream forks”

“Wine/Proton has gotten really good, but still requires tinkering, and still sometimes has really bad performance.”

“Windows versions running on Linux over Proton tend to be more stable than any native Linux version would be.”

“Proton is open source though (and a lot of the improvements are also upstreamed to Wine, which isn't directly under Valve's control)”

“Usually the recommendation I make to people playing on linux is to try with regular proton or proton experimental first”

“Proton-GE includes media libraries that valve can't include, which fixes video playback in many older games.”

“try with regular proton or proton experimental first”

“I use Proton-GE a fair bit when running steam games on Linux, usually when something in the normal proton release isn't working”

“compatibility on Linux is better now, especially with Valve implementing Proton so games would run on the Steam Deck”

“Steam handles the management of pulling whatever the most recent version of Proton-GE is for me and everything pretty much works.”

“older games with a native Linux port that is now unmaintained and stopped working at some point, but they still work just fine with Proton”

“Tens of thousands of Windows games would remain playable with ubiquitous Vulkan-capable hardware and a 500mb Proton runtime?”

“Steam lets me play offline and bends over backwards to get games to run (e.g. Proton and many other compatibility tools).”

“things have gotten much better, but pc gaming, esp via proton is no where near as seamless as playing on console”

“Sometimes, with work (different versions of proton, startup options, configs, or even new kernels or compositors, etc) you can get around those problems”

“maybe the only company that ever looked for sovereignity is thinking about leaving switzerland due to these opressive laws”

“And is not a US business, which is an important selling point to several companies and public institutions here in Europe.”

“In my experience even with games that have native Linux support running through proton seems to have less issues.”

“enough to compel developers to make sure their game runs well through Proton, which is all is necessary these days”

“I had great success in such cases by just overriding the compatibility tool used, most often to just some version of proton.”

“software, particularly games of the DX9-11 eras to perform better on Wine/Proton then they do under native Windows on the same hardware”

“The invention of the Proton protocol to allow gaming on Linux Machines is FORCING industry to ABIDE by the wishes of the customer.”

“There's been quite a few deal breaking issues with Steam client and/or Proton that went unaddressed by Valve for months”

“Proton and Wine means there is a single target now, instead of the fragmented mess that is Desktop Linux today.”

“Now with proton/steamos, the only games that need windows are multiplayer games with kernel-level anticheat mechanisms”

“Proton directly solves the latter problem, and may indirectly solve the former when Linux sees widespread adoption by gamers.”

“Proton is funded by our subscription payments. I think there's reasonable hope that their incentives will remained aligned with those of their paying users.”

“Proton has made huge strides, and the Steam Deck has forced a lot of game companies to make sure that there aren't any issues.”

“it's quite common to get better performance/fewer bugs by forcing a Linux native steam game to run the windows version through Proton instead”

“Startpage, DDG, Brave, Ublock, NextDNS, Proton, Mulvad, and all those similar companies and OSS exist literally because people were infuriated at the Big Tech bait-and-switch tactics”

“GloriousEggroll's Proton is in a much better shape though thanks to additional Wayland compatibility patches”

“When using proton it technically works - clicking randomly I launched the tutorial, judging by the sounds - but the screen is black all the time”

“Some (Age of Wonders 1) don't work at all under wine/proton. Others technically work but keep hitting snags like midi just flat out not working”

“this is due to Valve's big investments in Proton, Steam Deck and the new Steam hardware to get game compatibility working”

“Since Proton makes almost all games run, I don't have any reason to use Microsoft's rotten software anymore.”

“Proton is getting there but even so, it doesn't make Linux+Proton a drop-in replacement for people who have used Windows all their lives.”

“It desperately needs a stable API for games. Which Proton could provide, except there's also that whole Apple Silicon thing”

“once it's setup and working, either out of the box or after some tweaks, I don't have to mess with it ever again”

“the GloriousEggroll proton fork, which are easy to install with my distro's package manager”