Steam Play Proton and its Impact on Linux Gaming thus far

Late To The Party
Sep 4, 2018 · 3 min read

Introduction

On August 21, 2018, Valve announced a new version of Steam Play for Linux gamers called Proton. This feature is a fork of Wine, a compatibility layer that allows Windows applications to be run on Linux operating systems. In addition, it runs on the DXVK and VKD3D wrappers which translates DirectX 11 and DirectX 12, respectively, to Vulkan.

What Proton Brings to the Table

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