Prefixer is a modern alternative to Protontricks that's faster and simpler

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/prefixer-is-a-modern-alternative-to-protontricks-thats-faster-and-simpler/

Protontricks is a useful tool for Linux gaming, but it's a bit on the slow and complicated side that Prefixer aims to solve.

If you've never used Protontricks directly - it's a wrapper tool that enables you to run Winetricks commands for games running with Proton / GE-Proton. This is useful for launching external executables, adding needed runtime libraries and so on that sometimes games need to actually run properly (or for major standalone mods).

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priapus@piefed.social · 20 pts · 207d

This is very good, winetricks has been a great tool for Linux gaming but its a very slow 20000 line shell script, it definitely needs a replacement imo.

Hopefully this works well enough that Valve and Umu consider switching to it for applying Protonfixes.

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p0358@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 204d

I am very sad it's using JSON instead of TOML

EDIT: and even sadder if it's just Steam Proton without regular WINE prefixes or umu's protons