Release Proton 9.0-3 · ValveSoftware/Proton
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      • WalnutLum@lemmy.ml
        141·
        3 months ago

        It’s a game that messed with the windows on your desktop and opens file dialogs and stuff (as part of the spooks)

        It makes me wonder how it works on the Linux side

        • Courant d'air 🍃
          10·
          3 months ago

          As I understand the screenshots, it looks like it is simulating a windows XP desktop but not opening actual windows or messing with the system

          • WalnutLum@lemmy.ml
            2·
            3 months ago

            I think it does that for some parts, but it does close the game out and open up folders for some spooks

        • leopold@lemmy.kde.social
          1·
          3 months ago

          What problems do you anticipate? Wine, which Proton is just a modified version of, implements file dialogs. If it didn’t, just about every application that isn’t a game would be broken. Needing to open files is pretty ubiquitous, after all. You need file dialogs for that.

          • WalnutLum@lemmy.ml
            3·
            3 months ago

            Well part of what it does is grab your actual desktop background to use, and there’s a couple different ways to do that on Linux afaik

            Also I guess the file dialogs would open only to the wine prefix? My experience with wine applications and dialogs is mostly through bottles, so I’m not sure of the sandboxing…

  • feinstruktur@lemmy.ml
    7·
    3 months ago

    How likely is it that Proton can be used to make native Windows applications (especially CAD-Software) run on Linux? Beside my own desperate desire to do that I guess there are others out there to eagerly switch OS. For the software providers it seems to be a great opportunity to acquired new customers (at first glance).

    • Eugenia@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      Proton is well developed for games, but not for apps. But Wine itself is not as well taken cared for. Without tricks, patches and prayers, most complex apps don’t run on it. Or if they load, they crash quickly afterwards.

      Which CAD app are you trying to run? If it’s 2D, have you tried QCad/Cam?

    • stygis@lemmy.ml
      5·
      3 months ago

      Gstarcad 2022 and 2023 (I haven’t tested the latest versions) work perfectly on linux via wine and are 100% compatible with autodesk’s dwg format.

    • shirro@aussie.zoneEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      Proton is a patched Wine with a translation layer from DirectX to Vulkan. Wine will run a lot of Windows cad software with varying success, particularly older versions and I am not sure how much general desktop applications benefit from the Valve sponsored improvements to gaming. It is a shame these CAD programs weren’t all built on game engines like Unity or Unreal instead of a bunch of Windows APIs with varied levels of implementation.