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Wine 10.6 Released (gitlab.winehq.org)
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[–] Tenkard@lemmy.ml 12 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Steam uses Proton under the hood which is based on wine. From the repo

Proton is a tool for use with the Steam client which allows games which are exclusive to Windows to run on the Linux operating system. It uses Wine to facilitate this.