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The Wine development release 10.3 is now available. (gitlab.winehq.org)
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[–] robinm@programming.dev 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm taking the opportunity to ask something I wanted to know since a long time, but never asked. What is the difference between proton and wine?

[–] VampiricClam@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Wine is a compatibility layer for windows programs. Wine aims to be general purpose for all windows based programs. Proton is a compatibility layer that focuses primarily on video games. Proton includes a patched version on Wine.

Wine is developed by CodeWeavers, while Proton is developed by Valve with cooperation from CodeWeavers.

It's basically a games focused Wine.

[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Technically they have some differences, but the biggest from a user's perspective is how they are delivered and by whom. Wine is manually installed by you from your distro's package repo. Proton is provided by steam when you install a windows game on a Linux steam instance. If one breaks then you complain to the relevant party.