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7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux
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I want it to evolve to support more desktop applications. This is the one thing that will continue to hamper Linux adoption. Games are the best place to start, but we need all those old obscure, irreplaceable desktop apps to work now.
It's built on Wine, any general improvements to compatibility will generally support desktop programs using the same APIs
A custom wine