… Proton was the magic ingredient that gradually made around 90% of Steam games compatible with Linux. Combined with Vulkan's lack of overhead and the open-source Mesa drivers improving hardware compatibility, Proton gave rise to the modern era of Linux gaming . …
… The latest SteamOS updates squeeze more life out of the original Steam Deck's AMD APU, and both Wine and Proton can now use the mainline NTSYNC kernel driver to better map Windows synchronization primitives onto Linux, reducing overhead in some threaded workloads. …
… NTSYNC and the kernel rewrite Let the Linux kernel handle it instead One of the big recent improvements around Wine 11 is NTSYNC , a new kernel driver that directly models Windows NT synchronization primitives at the kernel level. …