… Then right-click the game you want to use Proton Experimental on, pick Properties Compatibility, check "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool," and select Proton Experimental. …
… 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. …
… Wine 11.6 also adds VBScript fixes and many bug tweaks; Proton may adopt these improvements. When we talk about how far Linux has come in PC gaming, we often focus on performance and compatibility. …
… 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. …
… 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… …
… Valve has already added the NTSYNC kernel driver to SteamOS 3.7.20 beta, loading the module by default, and an unofficial Proton fork, Proton GE, already has it enabled. When Valve's official Proton rebases on Wine 11, every Steam Deck owner gets this for free. …
… 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. …
… A meaningful slice of modern multiplayer gaming runs on kernel-level anti-cheat systems that either don't support Linux at all or require the publisher to opt in to Proton compatibility. …
… Related Bazzite is what most Linux gaming distros wish they were Choose Bazzite if you want a console-like experience on Linux Proton offers 90% game compatibility, but that 10% still hurts Linux can't cheat its way around anti-cheat Valve's relentless work on Proton, the translation layer enabling… …
… ProtonDB data suggests practically every Windows game works in some form on Linux now, and for a lot of people, that's more than enough to make the switch. But there's a new problem forming that could undo some of that progress, and it has nothing to do with driver support or Proton compatibility. …