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• officermike@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A proton is a positively charged subatomic particle doing in the nucleus of an atom. But in this context, Proton is a translation layer that allows games that were built for Windows to run on Linux.

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• _Sprite@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  it’s what people on linux use to play windows games on linux

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  • Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s Wine

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    • IronKrill@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Are you being purposefully obtuse? Proton is based on Wine yes, but it is it’s own distinct entity.

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    • Draghetta@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, that is the upstream. Valve’s downstream of wine is called proton.

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