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NTSYNC solved the synchronization bottleneck, but there was another kernel-level problem lurking underneath: what happens when Windows software bypasses Wine entirely and issues a raw x86 syscall instruction? Normally, Wine intercepts Windows API calls through its own reimplemented DLLs. A game calls a function in ntdll.dll, Wine's version of that DLL catches it, and everything gets routed correctly. But some Windows software skips the DLL layer and issues direct NT syscall instructions instead. On real Windows, the NT kernel handles those. On Linux, they hit the Linux kernel instead, which se
Wine has been translating Windows games to Linux since 1993, but Proton is what made it effortless… 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… …
… This client-side encryption, coupled with their zero-access architecture, means that even Proton itself cannot access the content of your data. Besides, Proton is based in Switzerland, which has some of the world's strictest privacy laws. …
… It has little to do with Proton and its capabilities, but rather, the fact that the experience around most games continues to favor Microsoft's platform in ways that matter to me and many other users. …
… 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. …
… Some titles will run identically to before. But for the games that do benefit from these changes, the improvements range from noticeable to absurd. And because Proton, SteamOS, and every downstream project builds on top of Wine, those gains trickle down to everyone. …
… What used to be a pain for Linux users is now moot thanks to just how far Proton has come. To be able to fire up the latest and most demanding PC games on Linux without experiencing performance or visual issues is easily taken for granted. …
… Winlator stacks Wine on top of x86/x86 64 translation layers like Box86 and Box64, with forks increasingly experimenting with components like Proton builds, FEXCore, Mesa Turnip, DXVK, and VKD3D. …