Hello Linux Gaming friends :)
I’ve been tinkering on and off with my wife’s laptop (Mint 22) to get a few of her games working on Linux, namely House Flipper 2. It experiences frequent OS crashes, despite everything saying that this game should work on Linux (hell, it’s even Steam Deck verified).
I’m not necessarily asking how to make this particular game run, but in my tinkering with different Proton versions I find myself asking: what is the difference between these versions of Proton? Why do some work better than others? How does one version work, say Hotfix or Experimental, but not a numbered release?
Just trying to learn to add some knowledge to my toolbelt, or whatever 😅. Thanks!
proton offers functions to windows programs that those programms expect to be there, however those functions might differ from what the program expect, because they might not implemnted be fully or they don’t cause something to happen that would happen with the windows implementation.
different proton versions might contain fixes for certain games that break other games or simply do things different enough that game x can habdle that but game y not.