Wine 4.0 as a Boon for GNU/Linux Gamers
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Steam Play for Linux update supports more games (including non-Steam games)
Valve is making it a little easier to be a gamer with a Linux computer. A few years ago the company started encouraging game developers to port their titles to run on Linux… but the vast majority of PC games are still Windows-only.
So last year Valve introduce Proton, a new tool for Steam Play, a tool that lets Linux users use a custom fork of WINE to run Windows software on a non-Windows device. In this case, Proton is optimized to let users run Windows games on a machine running a GNU/Linux operating system, even if the developers don’t officially support that OS.
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Steam For Linux Now Lets You Play Windows Games From Other Stores
That's worth reading again. If you happened to purchase a game like The Witcher 3 for Windows on GOG, you can now add the game's executable to Steam for Linux and run it. The same presumably goes for any .exe game launcher. Then Proton will work its compatibility magic to make that native Windows title run on Linux (with admittedly varying degrees of success). This short video demonstrates how it works.
Before now this was possible for very advanced users, but introducing this functionality into Steam Play blasts Proton's potential wide open.
A second Proton-related feature allows games that ship with their own native clients to be launched using Proton from inside Steam for Linux. This has positive implications beyond just convenience. As Boiling Steam points out...
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Linux gamers rejoice: Wine 4.0 is here
Gaming on Linux picked up some pace in recent years in large parts thanks to Valve Software's investment in growing gaming on Linux.
Mike listed some AAA games on Linux that Steam users could run back in mid-2018; Steam improved Windows games support significantly in the same year on Linux, by introducing a modified version of Wine that Valve Software called Proton.
The team behind Wine released a new major version of the software that adds support for many Windows games and applications on non-Windows systems such as those running Linux or Mac OS.
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