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To install ProtonUp-Qt on your Steam Deck, you want to resort to using flatpak. To install Proton GE and many other compatibility layers (that I’ll hopefully be able to cover in the close future), the easiest solution is using a tool developed by community member DavidoTek called ProtonUp-Qt. If a particular game is giving you trouble, either acting up or not working at all, it’s probably a good idea to try launching it with Proton GE. This particular version of Proton is faster moving compared to Valve’s own, plus it’s usually much closer to the latest releases of upstream Wine, and it includes a bunch of bleeding edge features and fixes that usually end up in Valve’s official Proton releases, just after a while. Red Hat engineer and community legend Glorious Eggroll develops their own distribution of Proton, aptly named Proton GE (where GE stands for “Glorious Eggroll” in case you were wondering). Valve themselves offer a variety of Proton versions, with some versions working better for certain games.īut they’re not the only ones putting out Proton releases. To put it simply, Wine - and consequently Proton - lets you run Windows only games on a Linux PC, and this includes the Steam Deck!

It’s a compatibility layer that implements the Windows API to work on a Linux system.

Proton is a distribution of Wine, Wine is a recursive acronym that stands for Wine is not an emulator. Proton is the secret sauce that makes the Steam Deck so great.