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Proton projects on GitHub

Compatibility tooling that lets Windows games run on Linux.

As of , the most-starred Proton projects on GitHub are Proton (33.1K stars), HeroicGamesLauncher (12.4K stars) and DroidDeck (9.7K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 5 Proton repositories with 55.9K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was DroidDeck, with +574 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+574

DroidDeck

Droid-Deck/DroidDeck · ★ 9.7K

DroidDeck brings the SteamOS Big Picture experience to Android, letting you run Valve's Steam client and Windows games via Valve's ARM64 Proton on an Adreno-powered Android handheld.

+22

HeroicGamesLauncher

Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher · ★ 12.4K

Heroic Games Launcher is an open-source games launcher that lets you log in to your Epic Games, GOG and Amazon Games accounts and install, update and play your games from one app on Linux, Windows and macOS.

+14

Proton

ValveSoftware/Proton · ★ 33.1K

Proton is a compatibility tool for the Steam client that lets games exclusive to Windows run on Linux. It is based on Wine plus additional components.

+6

steamac

fxgl/steamac · ★ 385

steamac runs Valve's actual ARM64 SteamOS (the Steam Frame image) inside a lightweight VM on Apple Silicon Macs, with GPU acceleration handled through Venus and Vulkan-on-Metal via MoltenVK.

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5 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · ValveSoftware/Proton

    Proton

    Proton is a compatibility tool for the Steam client that lets games exclusive to Windows run on Linux. It is based on Wine plus additional components.

    33.1K
  2. #2 · Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher

    HeroicGamesLauncher

    Heroic Games Launcher is an open-source games launcher that lets you log in to your Epic Games, GOG and Amazon Games accounts and install, update and play your games from one app on Linux, Windows and macOS.

    12.4K
  3. #3 · Droid-Deck/DroidDeck

    DroidDeck

    DroidDeck brings the SteamOS Big Picture experience to Android, letting you run Valve's Steam client and Windows games via Valve's ARM64 Proton on an Adreno-powered Android handheld.

    9.7K
  1. 4

    steamac

    385fxgl/steamac · Swift

    steamac runs Valve's actual ARM64 SteamOS (the Steam Frame image) inside a lightweight VM on Apple Silicon Macs, with GPU acceleration handled through Venus and Vulkan-on-Metal via MoltenVK.

  2. 5

    d4r

    288countervolts/d4r · C++

    d4r runs NVIDIA's official DLSS Super Resolution library inside Windows games on AMD Radeon GPUs under Linux and Proton, translating the DLSS network through ZLUDA (CUDA on ROCm/HIP) and replacing the heaviest kernels with hand-written RDNA3/RDNA4 code. It supports the DLSS 3 CNN model and the DLSS 4/4.5 transformer models; DLSS 5 is not supported.

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