For anyone who wants the same info without the ads see: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Proton-Versions

And for proton-ge: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom?tab=readme-ov-file#overview

Proton-sarek: https://github.com/pythonlover02/Proton-Sarek

The only reason for the article to exist is to have an excuse to serve ads.

The article has one sentence on using older versions for better compatability with some games.

The rest of the article is basically summed up by “bigger number means newer”

The whole article seemed very surface level and didn’t really give any more info than could be derived from the names of the versions. As for the community forks mentioned people could find much better info just looking at the readme.

Maybe I’m just too technical but it just feels to me as pointless as an article explaining the difference between hot and cold taps on a sink.

Edit: fix autocorrect

Have we really hit the point where we have to explain versioning to people now.

I use the community maintained docker container from https://github.com/nextcloud/docker

It’s separate containers for all the services, if you scroll down the readme you’ll find the compose file they recommend to start you out.