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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Perfect Claude Deep Research topic. Result attached.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> on behalf of Gillian Densmore <gil.densmore@gmail.com><br><b>Date: </b>Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:18\u202fAM<br><b>To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br><b>Subject: </b>[FRIAM] Proton(the linux thing to run games and apps) How it work?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I have deep dive Q:<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Anyone know what kind of black magic Valve is doing to make proton(the thing to run closed source windows stuff) work as well as it does?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Hi all I have deep dive Q suggestion and Q:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>How does Proton the thing that Valve made as fork of wine (the windows emulator for Linux) manage to be getting so good? If someone has contacts knows something about the tech let me know because it's mind bending to me.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Just incase anyone is curious and or lost:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(software)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(software)</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>In short Gaben and therefor valve a long time ago had huge case of drama with MS. What that meant was: valve left windows land pretty quickly they started work on Proton, a wine kind of glow up for years has been making headway to pretty good compatibility. I for one are fascinated by what kind black magic it can do so that there's good chance a windows Killer app will run.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>If anyone cares to start a thread and deep dive into how does proton work, i'd love to have a much bette runderstanding of it.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>