• Tenkard@lemmy.ml
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      7 hours ago

      Steam uses Proton under the hood which is based on wine. From the repo

      Proton is a tool for use with the Steam client which allows games which are exclusive to Windows to run on the Linux operating system. It uses Wine to facilitate this.

      • Laser@feddit.org
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        15 hours ago

        I wouldn’t really call it a fork from my understanding, but rather a (downstream) distribution. But maybe those are just semantics

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          Semantics make a difference where you least expect it to sometimes. Good to be correct, even if it seemingly doesn’t matter in the context. 👌

    • _____@lemm.ee
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      16 hours ago

      I use wine for FFXIV. proton kinda works but not for my case. Certain mods use a bleeding edge version of dotnet and this version is not present in proton.