So do they conflict when both are installed? I have Wine on my laptop and it runs fine for games like the older flight simulator, but Proton doesn't seem to work at all for some reason. Does having Wine installed break Proton, or can they both coexist happily together?
ED not running any more on latest versions of Linux ?
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My 2 cents. Wine is a software layer that was developed to run windows 3.1 software on Linux and was developed by Codeweavers and many independent programmers. A few years ago Valve got interested in running windows games on linux machines so they've started contributing (quite heavily) to the wine project.
Valve releases its own "brand of wine" that it calls Proton and which is mostly integrated in the linux steam client. In theory it's as easy as installing the linux client of steam, then using that to install a windows game, with the steam client more or less seamlessly installing the needed support to run said game on linux.
Due to the rapid development and having to support so many different games it sometimes breaks and one might have to specify a specific version of wine for a specific game. That is to say that it ought to be completely seamless if using the steam client, but sometimes it's broken and has to be fiddled with a bit manually. And the same goes for wine itself, sometimes a newer version might break an already working game, so sometimes it's important to use the right version and not only the latest one.
To put it simply Wine and Proton are more or less the same thing, though Proton is Valve's version and integrated into the linux steam client.
It shouldn't present any problems at all to have wine installed on a computer and then to install several different versions of proton in the steam client. In fact it's possible but not all that easy to have several different versions of wine installed on a computer and to choose the right version manually by using scripts (read batch files) to start things up. AFAIK it's also possible to install several different versions of proton and to use them without the steam client, but it's also not all that easy and AFAIK not recommended by Valve.
It all sounds way more complicated than it really is, and steam is really good at running most window games on linux.
Edit: To directly answer the question, you should be able to have a version of wine installed on your computer at the same time that you have several different versions of proton installed for different games in the steam client.
Valve releases its own "brand of wine" that it calls Proton and which is mostly integrated in the linux steam client. In theory it's as easy as installing the linux client of steam, then using that to install a windows game, with the steam client more or less seamlessly installing the needed support to run said game on linux.
Due to the rapid development and having to support so many different games it sometimes breaks and one might have to specify a specific version of wine for a specific game. That is to say that it ought to be completely seamless if using the steam client, but sometimes it's broken and has to be fiddled with a bit manually. And the same goes for wine itself, sometimes a newer version might break an already working game, so sometimes it's important to use the right version and not only the latest one.
To put it simply Wine and Proton are more or less the same thing, though Proton is Valve's version and integrated into the linux steam client.
It shouldn't present any problems at all to have wine installed on a computer and then to install several different versions of proton in the steam client. In fact it's possible but not all that easy to have several different versions of wine installed on a computer and to choose the right version manually by using scripts (read batch files) to start things up. AFAIK it's also possible to install several different versions of proton and to use them without the steam client, but it's also not all that easy and AFAIK not recommended by Valve.
It all sounds way more complicated than it really is, and steam is really good at running most window games on linux.
Edit: To directly answer the question, you should be able to have a version of wine installed on your computer at the same time that you have several different versions of proton installed for different games in the steam client.
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I've not run into a problem yet.