Proton GE Got Two Quick Hotfixes To Address Crashing Issue

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After Proton GE 10-5's release, there were two quick hotfixes that were released to fix a crashing issue and re-add an option. 10-6 rebased wine-wayland patches since they were causing crashing issues, while 10-7 re-adds the PROTON_PREFER_SDL option so people can use it as a launch option again. 10-5 has been erased due to the issues it causes, so I recommend updating to 10-7 when you get the chance.

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Proton GE 10-6 Update Changelog:

• The wine-wayland patches needed rebasing and needed force pushing due to a problem with a few commits in them noted by the author that can cause some crashing, making GE-Proton10-5 version invalid.
• The 10-5 release was reverted due to the force push per the request of the wine-wayland patch set author, thus the version bumped to 10-6. It's one of those view weird instances where you will see a version missing in the releases. (This also happened in the past with media foundation stuff that Valve yelled at me about). Oopsie.

Proton GE 10-7 Update Changelog:

• Re-added the PROTON_PREFER_SDL option. When this envvar is set steam input and hidraw are disabled so that SDL takes priority over controller support.

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