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What are the names of those? I only recognize Wine ("Wine Is Not an Emulator")
Well there is
Thanks! protondb sounds like a very handy website
It surely is, it has also been really great to see the growing support for all those games over the last years. Sad to see some games still being borked with no valid reason (Pubg e.g., with the developers stating the game can run on linux with no problems at all, they still will block it bc they are scared of hackers or some other lame excuse).
Every problem I had playing games on Linux could be fixed by some kind stranger on there offering a command or sth. else (sometimes even stuff thats not related to linux at all lol)
Sure is! Almost every game that doesn't run well out of the box has a fix there.
Proton is a fork of Wine. It was created by Valve and they have done amazing work getting it to support basically everything. It's made the steam deck and amazing machine.
Vuncan, DXVK, and Proton are other open source projects that either make wine more capable or more user friendly. It's still wine under the hood, though.