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The Wine development release 10.3 is now available. (gitlab.winehq.org)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 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.