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How does Proton work? Is it another application like wine?
It's literally a fork of wine.
But from a practical perspective, you tell steam to start the game and it starts it, installing and using proton as necessary. If the developers haven't configured it you have to first click a button in preferences that says "use proton" (paraphrased), but that's it.
Also Steam can be configured to use Proton by default for non-native games :3
It isn't just a fork, its a collection of tools and patches around wine tailored for a specific purpose.
DXVK, VKD3D and other components aren't part of Wine or Proton's Wine builds, for example. They're extra tools used on-top of Wine.
How well are non-Steam games supported..?
It depends, the Heroic games launcher works well for GOG and Epic, and I've heard good things about Lutris too. For other games with their own launcher, you may have to follow certain instructions to get them to run.
Games like valorant are broken due to anticheat, but it's basically malware and I wouldn't install it anyway.