Proton
- Linux Gaming in 2026: The Year It Got Serious
GE-Proton 10-34 ships targeted fixes for God of War Ragnarok, Final Fantasy XIV, and Assassin's Creed 1. Forza Horizon 6 confirmed for Steam Deck at May launch. Epic lays off 1,000+ amid Fortnite decline, raising questions about the EAC Linux holdout. NTSYNC now shipping by default in SteamOS 3.7.20 beta.
- Wine 11's NTSYNC Rewrite: Linux Gaming Just Closed a Real Gap
Wine 11 ships NTSYNC, a kernel-level synchronisation primitive that eliminates a long-standing performance bottleneck for Windows apps running on Linux. The frame rate gains are real and the implications for Proton and SteamOS are significant.