Post #3758928
2026-07-12 09:59 UTC
Ah I did mean that the VM would be using proton inside. i.e. proton would be running in the guest os. I think it was my bad wording.
Thanks for confirming what I’d heard about wine / proton not being the same as virtualisation when it comes to preventing malware from running just because it is now on linux. I am also fully aware that just because something is inside a vm, does not mean malware cannot escape. I am just trying to make it less likely.
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@helix@feddit.org 2026-07-13 07:42
You shouldn’t need a full VM running Proton. I’d rather use sonething more lightweight, i.e. sandboxing. Most likely Windows games which are malicious don’t have a way to break out of Linux containment, so if you run all games as a different user with no access to your other files or inside a sandbox, there should be a negligible risk. The chance of a Windows malware using Linux sandbox exploits is very very very small.