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GloriousEggroll's Proton has been rebased on Proton 11

60 pointsby d3Xt3rlast Wednesday at 8:04 AM24 commentsview on HN

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jamiestoday at 1:06 AM

For those curious, Proton is included with Steam, but GE's Proton includes many tweaks, improvements, and yes, rebasing on the latest upstream versions of many packages. For many games running in Linux GE Proton tends to be better than Valve's default Proton. GE Proton also includes features earlier than Valve, like FSR3 -> FSR4 upgrading, etc.

CachyOS makes also makes a Proton that's similar but different from GE's. There's also Valve's Proton betas, Proton Experimental (which is often updated within days of major releases).

ProtonDB.com is a great resource for finding out which "Proton" works best for a given game.

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dwrobertsyesterday at 10:07 PM

Might be useful to provide some context on why this fork is interesting or relevant

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yincrashyesterday at 9:31 PM

It's interesting to read that an entire video streaming rework was done with AI, but likely won't be upstreamed because of the upstream policy on AI gen code. I wonder if that will ever be re-done using the plan GE outlined in the release notes.

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