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Proton is a fork of wine. I believe they still use parts from each other.
I wouldn't really call it a fork from my understanding, but rather a (downstream) distribution. But maybe those are just semantics
Semantics make a difference where you least expect it to sometimes. Good to be correct, even if it seemingly doesn't matter in the context. 👌