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Valve Corporation—Valve developed and open-sourced Proton compatibility layer and SteamOS, enabling Linux gaming

Valve developed Proton (launched August 2018), an open-source Windows compatibility layer based on Wine, in partnership with CodeWeavers. Published on GitHub, it enables thousands of Windows games to run on Linux. SteamOS 3.0, a modified Arch Linux distribution, shipped with Steam Deck. These contributions significantly advanced the Linux gaming ecosystem.

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Valve open-sourced Proton compatibility layer on GitHub, enabling thousands of Windows games on Linux

Valve developed and open-sourced Proton, a Windows compatibility layer based on Wine, in partnership with CodeWeavers. Published on GitHub, it enables thousands of Windows games to run on Linux.

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