SteamPlay & Proton vs VMware | Which One Is Better For Windows Games on Linux?
813Let's talk about Wine & SteamPlay and how it compares to running Windows 10 inside VMware Player for Linux Gaming.
SteamPlay is a few features built into the Steam on Linux. It makes it so you no longer need Lutris or Play On Linux to run your favorite Steam Windows Games because, with Steam Play, they are built into your normal games library in Steam!
SteamPlay is *not* Wine. It is the brand-new for an open-source project called Proton which includes Wine, Dxvk, Ffmpeg, and more projects.
I've covered VMware Workstation Player in other videos but I've never compared gaming on VMware with Wine. Attempting to use VMware as a gaming environment has it's own issues because VMware was never designed with performant 3D rendering in mind.
The bottom line is - in many cases, VMware offers better compatibility with games and applications than Wine does. However, because VMware is virtualization and Wine is not, SteamPlay is going to offer better performance in general.
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