For anyone who wants the same info without the ads see: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Proton-Versions
And for proton-ge: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom?tab=readme-ov-file#overview
Proton-sarek: https://github.com/pythonlover02/Proton-Sarek
The only reason for the article to exist is to have an excuse to serve ads.
Have we really hit the point where we have to explain versioning to people now.
Lemmy is a more technical crowd, but many deck owners don’t understand what proton is, or why they might need different versions.
Most software you don’t even have an option to easily use older versions, so choosing to downgrade proton for a specific game may be a unique experience for some.
The article has one sentence on using older versions for better compatability with some games.
The rest of the article is basically summed up by “bigger number means newer”
The whole article seemed very surface level and didn’t really give any more info than could be derived from the names of the versions. As for the community forks mentioned people could find much better info just looking at the readme.
Maybe I’m just too technical but it just feels to me as pointless as an article explaining the difference between hot and cold taps on a sink.
Edit: fix autocorrect
Yet, not the article nor proton GitHub readme explain which version proton-hotfix is based of. I suppose based on proton-experimental, but then again it also makes sense to be based on proton-stable.
