this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2025
50 points (100.0% liked)

Linux

7276 readers
198 users here now

A community for everything relating to the GNU/Linux operating system

Also check out:

Original icon base courtesy of [email protected] and The GIMP

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months 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?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months 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.

load more comments (1 replies)