Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude thanks.How has Valve and or gaben managed to get proton be so..dynamic and slick at mostly just working? What I mean is that I have thrown all kinds of windows apps and it (so far) just to see if it'd break: it's managed to boot up: photoshop, mya, MAME(for windows) (that one was just oops), all kinds of games it'd at least ryry to figure it out. what was so cool there is: some apps that got from schools...mostly just working. Something windows itself was having a time with. So it was like magic when I typed proton (or wine) (some killer app and it's path here). and was all like this is a trip man, I bet FRIAM would stoke on trying to do a deep dive into that magic. But egad how did they make it so performant? Man this is cool af, back when I was nice and deep into the linux work around 2018 or when ever it was: Wine would eat up ram, then swap, then my entire computer just needed a reboot. So my mind was nice and blown when I tried all kinds of apps: and someblack magic between Lturis or Faugus with wine most of the things i've tried have just worked, but also, and even better is how well it's kept sandboxed somehow it's fantastic. So thought to myself: why not ask, try and start a thread or something.
On Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 12:47 PM Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > Perfect Claude Deep Research topic. Result attached. > > > > > > *From: *Friam <[email protected]> on behalf of Gillian Densmore < > [email protected]> > *Date: *Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:18 AM > *To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > [email protected]> > *Subject: *[FRIAM] Proton(the linux thing to run games and apps) How it > work? > > I have deep dive Q: > > Anyone know what kind of black magic Valve is doing to make proton(the > thing to run closed source windows stuff) work as well as it does? > > Hi all I have deep dive Q suggestion and Q: > > How does Proton the thing that Valve made as fork of wine (the windows > emulator for Linux) manage to be getting so good? If someone has contacts > knows something about the tech let me know because it's mind bending to me. > > > > Just incase anyone is curious and or lost: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(software) > > > > In short Gaben and therefor valve a long time ago had huge case of drama > with MS. What that meant was: valve left windows land pretty quickly they > started work on Proton, a wine kind of glow up for years has been making > headway to pretty good compatibility. I for one are fascinated by what kind > black magic it can do so that there's good chance a windows Killer app will > run. > > If anyone cares to start a thread and deep dive into how does proton work, > i'd love to have a much bette runderstanding of it. > > > > > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / > ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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