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Steam Deck can only go so far in competing with Windows. The EU’s investigation into the Microsoft – Activision deal has been so meticulous that they have put some study into compatibility layers like ...

For years now, Valve has been slowly improving the capabilities of the Proton compatibility layer that lets thousands of Windows games work seamlessly on the Linux-based SteamOS. But Valve’s ...

Apple has announced a new tool to translate games coded for Windows onto MacOS. It sounds a lot like Proton, Valve's compatibility layer for the Steam Deck, or more generally Wine for Linux, and it's ...

Fan developers have recently revealed XWine1, a compatibility layer that aims to do everything you could want from an Xbox One emulator. The devs unveiled their project to the world on September 8.

The latest Mac computers with Apple Silicon chips are fantastic computers, but they fall behind their Intel-powered predecessors in one way: Windows software compatibility. If you occasionally need a ...

Valve’s Android compatibility layer now has its official name, Lepton, and a cute frog logo. The name Lepton appeared on Steam and SteamDB just a few weeks after Valve unveiled the Steam Frame headset ...

In context: CodeWeavers' CrossOver is a software package designed to run Windows applications and games on macOS systems. The company describes its tool as a "completely unique approach" to ...

The latest Steam beta runs natively on Apple silicon Apple is retiring the Rosetta 2 compatibility layer Games should run more smoothly and more efficiently Following WWDC 2025, we've had a flurry of ...

What just happened? Leptons, such as electrons and neutrinos, are elementary particles that do not undergo strong-force interactions with other subatomic particles. "Lepton" is also the alleged name ...

The Proton layer in Steam Deck allows the device to run games that are compatible with Windows. We have noticed that on some occasions, the Steam Deck Proton compatibility tool fails, forbidding the ...

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