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Steam in Wine vs. Steam running Wine? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by KelsonV@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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I know Steam on Linux uses a Wine environment to run Windows games, but I was recently reminded that you can run the Windows version of Steam in a Wine bottle. Is there any advantage to doing it this way instead of running the Linux client with Proton?

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[–] fhein@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Running the Linux version of Steam allows you to have different Wine environments for each game. I don't know how common it is, but it's happened at least a few times that some game would require a specific version of Proton to run.