Wine is a compatibility layer for windows programs. Wine aims to be general purpose for all windows based programs. Proton is a compatibility layer that focuses primarily on video games. Proton includes a patched version on Wine.

Wine is developed by CodeWeavers, while Proton is developed by Valve with cooperation from CodeWeavers.

It’s basically a games focused Wine.

The bar on these is loose so that it rolls, which makes hanging significantly harder. If you do one hand in the opposite direction of the other, you can mitigate this effect, but most places prohibit you from doing it.

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