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Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components

118 mentions on Hacker News by 97 people: 20 stories, 98 comments · first 2018-08-22 · latest 2026-10-01

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  1. …and policy training (with PPO) for a robot. Recently I've been debugging MSFS2024 inside Proton: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/8255#issuecom...
    comment by fxtentacle · 2026-10-01 · in Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)
  2. …aren't targeting Linux. This machine works via the absolutely excellent, almost magical Proton ( https://github.com/valvesoftware/proton ) that lets you run most of your Windows library on Linux, largely seamlessly.
    comment by llm_nerd · 2026-06-22 · in Steam Machine launches today
  3. …and select "Compatibility Layer" and there you will find several versions of Proton. Proton https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton is a pre-configured wine bundled with windows DLLs and Linux .so library files. This makes Proton Immutable…
    comment by hparadiz · 2026-06-17 · in Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability
  4. …a tool Valve made, based on Wine, to easily run Windows games, on Linux [0]. GP meant Proton. [0]: https://github.com/valvesoftware/proton
    comment by oofbaroomf · 2026-06-05 · in WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access
  5. …nowadays. For me the lowest bandwidth option was to dual boot then load existing library with https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Using-a-NTFS-di... Got it running in less than an hour.
    comment by utbabya · 2026-05-14 · in Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
  6. …the game. You might want to enable Proton logging and have a look at what it says is going on. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/?tab=readme-ov-file#...
    comment by foresto · 2026-04-02 · in Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
  7. …a bug/crash report, it may "see" itself as running under windows as that is what wine presents. https://github.com/valvesoftware/proton "Proton is a tool for use with the Steam client which allows games which are exclusive to Windows to…
    comment by sandworm101 · 2026-04-02 · in Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
  8. …the exact same code provided by the steam client. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime https://github.com/valvesoftware/proton
    comment by akimbostrawman · 2026-04-02 · in Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
  9. …not require a kernel patch. If you're gaming on Linux with Steam, you're probably already using it. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/?tab=readme-ov-file#...
    comment by foresto · 2026-03-24 · in Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains
  10. see also the proton release notes: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/releases
    comment by yshui · 2026-01-19 · in Wine 11.0
  11. …only so many hours in the day, and supporting two platforms is a lot more work than one. [1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/commit/a84120449d817...
    comment by coldpie · 2025-12-03 · in Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm
  12. …exclusive to kernel-mode anti-cheats. Even VAC, which is not kernel-mode, doesn't work in Proton: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/3225
    comment by ThatPlayer · 2025-12-01 · in Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton
  13. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/1493 This is fun, just found this issue from 2018 which was closed with this comment: > Hello @setsunati, this is not a realistic objective for Proton. As @rkfg, mentions wine for ARM does not…
    comment by Yokolos · 2025-11-12 · in Steam Machine
  14. Quite a lot of this in proton, except it's by steam appid: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/blob/proton_10.0/pro...
    comment by ZeWaka · 2025-09-21 · in DXGI debugging: Microsoft put me on a list
  15. …50 dependencies pulled into the build, to create a single gstreamer plugin. Not a fan. [1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/commit/f21922d970888...
    comment by coldpie · 2025-08-27 · in Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published
  16. …1: https://archlinux.org/news/transition-to-the-new-wow64-wine-... 2: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/6889 (comment from artemyto on May 3)
    comment by ttctciyf · 2025-06-24 · in Fedora Linux devs discuss dropping 32-bit packages – bad news for Steam gamers
  17. …platforms? Because Valve puts lots of time and money into making it work for their customers ( https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/graphs/contributors ), time and money that the average small business can't afford.
    comment by LegionMammal978 · 2025-05-11 · in Plain Vanilla Web
  18. …compatibility list also lists SuperTux and SuperTuxCart. "lsteamclient: Add support for ARM64." https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/commit/8ff40aad6ef00... .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43847860 /? box86:…
    comment by westurner · 2025-05-02 · in Felix86: Run x86-64 programs on RISC-V Linux
  19. …better on Linux than on Windows, although Valve has people actively working on changing this: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Changelog
    comment by ryao · 2024-12-31 · in Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition
  20. …games running in Proton often has comments that are helpful when trying to bring up a game in Wine. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton…
    comment by foresto · 2024-12-07 · in Wine 10.0 RC1 – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS
  21. …game in question under here[0]. If one exists, add your report to it. If not, open a new one. [0] https://github.com/valvesoftware/proton/issues
    comment by Scramblejams · 2024-12-01 · in Steam Deck hits 17,000 games playable and verified
  22. …need to fix it? [0]: https://boilingsteam.com/valve-breaks-the-shackles-of-proton... [1]: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
    comment by ssl-3 · 2024-10-11 · in Valve says Steam users don't own a thing, GOG says its games can't be taken away
  23. …Proton. Beat Saber was an official launch title for Proton, but was unplayable for months [1]. [1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/6638
    comment by rft · 2024-10-10 · in Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency
  24. …already have Proton? If you install Steam on Linux, a lot of games will just automatically run: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton Sincerely, Jealous Mac user
    comment by solardev · 2024-06-26 · in US Mac market share grew 22% in Q1, likely helped by new MacBook Air models
  25. Until it isn't. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/6051 No glibc will not fix it and the rolling release distros are now patching their libc. Here is the list of ABI breaking changes: https://abi-laboratory.pro/?view=timeline&l=…
    comment by okanat · 2024-06-21 · in SUSE upgrades its distros with 19 years of support – no other Linux comes close
  26. …Several people seem to have gotten early builds to compile on Mac with usable performance: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/1344
    comment by talldayo · 2024-06-05 · in Vulkan1.3 on the M1 in one month
  27. …the game from the Steam library. [1] https://distrobox.it/compatibility/#containers-distros [2] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton [3] https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steam-runtime-tools/-/b...
    comment by jasomill · 2024-05-24 · in Ask HN: What makes Windows 11 perform much worse than Windows XP?
  28. They use their own variant of wine ( https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton )
    comment by mulle_nat · 2024-05-03 · in Wine 9.8 (Dev) – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS
  29. Or Valve's Proton[0], a tool for playing Windows games on Linux. [0] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
    comment by favorited · 2024-01-30 · in Proton, a fast and lightweight alternative to Apache Flink
  30. …DirectX over Vulkan which is fast becoming more performant and ubiquitous. Edit2 : Proton's repo - https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
    comment by bilekas · 2024-01-08 · in Steam Deck officially hits over 13,000 games Playable and Verified
  31. Direct link to the release https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/releases/tag/proton-...
    comment by SushiHippie · 2023-10-08 · in Proton 8.0-4 – Wine Valve Software Steam Linux
  32. The steam deck is a linux pc with an unlocked bootloader. All of their work on Proton is open source: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
    comment by justinsaccount · 2023-09-27 · in Meta Quest 3
  33. I'm confused, who works on Proton is it Valve or CodeWeavers? I don't see valve employees in there: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/graphs/contributors
    comment by Thaxll · 2023-04-17 · in Valve Releases Proton 8.0-1c
  34. …through a software layer called proton. I guess you could try to port this to android or ios ... https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton The hardware may be more powerful on your phone (but it probably isn't). The screen is probably better…
    comment by sleepybrett · 2023-03-31 · in 75% of the Most Played Games on Steam Are Playable on the Steam Deck
  35. …Wine & Proton. Some of the forks are more blessed & tested versions than forks. Source is here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton Notice that includes a lot of git submodules; the big one is Wine, but it also includes forks of…
    comment by bryanlarsen · 2023-01-24 · in Wine 8.0
  36. …which it the runs through its Wine-based but very optimized Win32-to-Linux layer called Proton ( https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton ) and that's it right? Well, that's actually wrong :) Valve learned a lot when they added MacOS…
    comment by mindcrash · 2022-12-24 · in After almost a year with the Steam Deck I've finally been converted
  37. …DXVK, and MoltenVK is not always up to parity with implementing Vulkan API calls on Metal reliably. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/1344#issuecom... An alternative would be using CrossOver (which pulls from Wine and adds…
    comment by lloeki · 2022-11-25 · in Factorio runs on Apple Silicon
  38. …are exclusive to Windows to run on the Linux operating system. It uses Wine to facilitate this." https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
    comment by jasonpeacock · 2022-11-23 · in Valve Introduces Proton Next
  39. …harder . I don't know which solution I like better. [1] ~75 lines of library authorship copyrights https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/blob/proton_7.0/dist...
    comment by coldpie · 2022-10-18 · in Why Rust?
  40. Surely, they just used proton, right? Source code is here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/
    comment by hedora · 2022-10-02 · in Stadia died because no one trusts Google
  41. …macOS was removed from Proton, but could not find any official word apart from some comments here https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/1344 . It was quite odd because the original herald of Steam Play had macOS front and center,…
    comment by month13 · 2022-03-09 · in Apple Mac Studio
  42. …and if it were really so easy I suspect they would have furthered their work on Proton for Mac ( https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/1344 ).
    comment by striking · 2022-02-07 · in Thank You, Valve
  43. …front (some rationale in [2]), although I think community efforts on wine would be welcomed. [1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/commit/a84120449d817... [2] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/1493#issuecom...
    comment by MayeulC · 2021-12-22 · in Linux Has Grown into a Viable PC Gaming Platform and the Steam Stats Prove It
  44. …layer like Wine. Which is what Valve maintains - https://github.com/ValveSoftware/wine and https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton Valve only needs to maintain wine & proton for a distribution. The games themselves ? well, they are windows…
    comment by sandGorgon · 2021-11-23 · in Flatpak Is Not the Future
  45. With Steam and/or Proton https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
    comment by sheepdestroyer · 2021-10-09 · in Part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux
  46. …but Star wars Interregnum seems to crash for me after a while. I think it's a known issue on Linux: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/265#issuecomm... These mods seem nice, but I am not so much into these other universes, and…
    comment by MayeulC · 2021-07-28 · in In defense of hard counters in real time strategy games
  47. …2nd generation of it. Wonder if they'll release a Oculus-Quest-like all-in-one VR system next. 1. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
    comment by flanbiscuit · 2021-07-15 · in Valve Steam Deck
  48. …games. It's just a fork[0] of Wine with DXVK and some other Wine "extensions" baked in. [0] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton Also good luck buying a new GPU in the next 4 years :)
    comment by utf_8x · 2021-06-29 · in Update on Windows 11 minimum system requirements
  49. …Wine also has DXVK to convert the DirectX calls to Vulkan ones. So it's all the same stuff really. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/ wine @ eef39a6 vkd3d-proton @ 72d9b32 Cobbling together existing tools is really powerful in games…
    comment by aspaceman · 2021-06-27 · in Roblox on Linux with recent Wine 6.11
  50. This occurred to me, too. Might be able to get it running on Wine or even Proton [1] [1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/
    comment by programmarchy · 2021-06-25 · in Nvidia Canvas