Classic Capcom horror games are now playable on Linux's Proton—here's how to try them early
… Enable Proton Experimental via Properties Compatibility to try these games before the main Proton builds ship. …
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Steam is running on the Switch thanks to the latest Proton beta
… In the thread under their initial post, @aagaming.me says that they have shared "a working copy of proton arm + steamrt arm that you can drop right into conpatibilitytools.d to play games with this client." Steam Linux ARM64 beta on Switch — aagaming @aagaming.me 2026-04-16T23:18:20.813Z The Proton… …
Wine 11.6 just made modding Windows games on Linux easier, and Proton could be next
… Wine 11.6 also adds VBScript fixes and many bug tweaks; Proton may adopt these improvements. …
Wine has been translating Windows games to Linux since 1993, but Proton is what made it effortless
… Proton is built on Wine, but it isn't Wine Proton adds a lot for gamers Proton is Valve's compatibility stack for running Windows games through Steam on Linux. …
Valve isn't ditching Windows or x86, but it's quietly making both optional
… In the Proton stack, FEX handles the CPU instruction translation; the Windows API and graphics compatibility layers Wine, DXVK, VKD3D-Proton still do the heavy lifting on the API side. FEX solves the instruction-set problem; Proton still has to solve the Windows problem. …
Linux gaming still breaks in ways that make normal people give up
… ProtonDB, a community-maintained database that tracks which games run well through Proton, is proof of this. …
I replaced Google's apps with these 7 open-source alternatives, and I'm never going back
… Proton Pass Individual pricing $4.99/month Key highlights hide-my-email aliases, open-source Platforms Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, Chrome, Safari, Firefox Proton is a password manager from the highly popular Proton Team, who else develops Proton Mail and Proton VPN. …
CachyOS is dethroning Windows at the one thing it owned for decades
… There's even a website called ProtonDB that lets you look up a game you want to play on Linux and see how well Proton translates it. …
SteamOS scared Microsoft into making Windows less like Windows
… The obvious benefit of Proton's advancement is that more Steam titles will run more smoothly on the Steam Deck. However, it also meant that desktop operating systems could run Windows games via Proton. …
I'm switching to Linux for gaming — here's why
… Wine and Proton are tools for running Windows-only games on Linux with as close to native performance as possible. Proton is based on Wine, which translates system calls from one OS to another. …