What #valve has done for Linux adoption is extremely impressive. Proton alone is a monumental achievement.
Discussion
Isn't Proton just a pseudo-fork of Wine? I don't notice much difference when running games with default Wine vs Proton.
The way it's implemented is completely seamless into Steam. It has various game optimizations and fixes over Wine and its ability to just make games work with zero user effort is really impressive. Integrated with Vulkan and DXVK makes its magic so seamless, unless you understand how it works it's not even noticeable. Lol
Now if someone could just make Adobe or Affinity software work reliably that would be a miracle. Lol