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Not really, because WINE is a new implementation based on reverse engineering. Proton is based directly on WINE, as it is a fork and uses the code directly and modifies and adds stuff. Here is my try to visualize the difference: Imagine you copy a text file, make changes to it and save it as a new file. Its based on the original text file. That is what Proton does with WINE. WINE itself does not do that with Windows. Instead imagine you open a web browser, look at the website how it looks in your browser and try to guess what the HTML of the original source code might look like, based on how it appears on the browser. Then you test your code again and again, look if it behaves similar to the original output. So kinda this is what WINE does.