How do WINE and Proton work for running Windows applications/games on Linux?
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That’s a bit more complex but since this is ELI5 I will try to really simplify it:
Imagine Windows and Linux as two different languages. Let’s take English and German for this example.
Windows = Englisch and Linux = German
If a Programm now says
“Add 10 and 23 and display that number on the screen” Windows would understand what is meant while Linux (our German guy) will throw a fit because you make no sense. Same thing would happen if the program would say “Addiere 10 und 23 und zeichne das Ergebnis auf dem Bildschirm” just this time Windows would have no idea what to do.
WINE and Proton work as the equivalent to Google Translate.
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