There very much is a difference. Proton is the compatibility layer used to run Windows games in Linux. Native would not use Proton.
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redhorsejacket@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoI don’t use Linux, and I didn’t know if there was a difference between any of those terms. Soni just used all of em 😅
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rtxn@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Those two are mutually exclusive. An application that uses Proton can’t be natively Linux-compatible, and an application that is natively Linux-compatible can’t run using Proton.
Sounds like it’s a Windows build, but the developers also provide first party support for running it on Proton.