To enable Proton, open your Steam client and in the top left corner click on 'Steam' and then select 'Settings'. This section assumes that you have The Elder Scrolls Online in your games library on Steam. If you have physical release of ESO or if you own it in Bethesda's store, then you can either set it up to work with Lutris or install and run it directly with WINE. If you own The Elder Scrolls Online on Steam, you can enable Proton and run it directly from Steam client.

The entry for The Elder Scrolls Online is already in the Lutris library. Games can either be installed by the use of community-made installers or by making Lutris run them from their already existing installations. It allows easy installation and management of various games and software required to run games. Lutris is a free and open source game manager. Most reports state that The Elder Scrolls Online runs very well with Proton. Certain games perform better when ran with Proton compared to regular WINE as there are some additional performance-improving technologies integrated into it. Proton is a variation of WINE developed by Valve that is used as a compatibility layer in Steam, allowing many of the games to be played despite them lacking native Linux release. ESO is confirmed to be working with WINE. Wine can almost always be found in distribution's repository and can therefore be easily installed with a package manager that distribution provides. WINE is a free and open source compatibility layer that allows software intended to be run on Microsoft Windows to work on Linux (and also some other operating systems). This article assumes that you are familiar with the basics of how Linux works.

It is usually obtained in a form of Linux distribution. GNU+Linux is a free (libre) and open source operating system. 4.2 Installing The Elder Scrolls Online.

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