That specific game does seem to have problems with proton https://www.protondb.com/app/9420 However it doesn’t seem to be permissions, so either a problem with the games or the specific version of proton you’re using.

Try opening steam via a terminal and opening a game. You should see the problem launching the game in the terminal, might be permissions.

Not really answering the whole question, but you really don’t need a lot. Currently running jellyfin, a blog and some other fun dockers on a raspberry pi (clone), with an external nas though a large USB would do. Start with just “retrieving” movies to your local disk and think what else you need.

• want to access movies between devices? Get some cheap server (I.e some second hand computer) or a NAS
• want to have some snazzy UI? Get jellyfin
• Want to be able to expand storage? Set up some raid configuration or similar.

Good story about overcomplicating things

1. Protondb
2. Different proton version
3. Restart steam in terminal and look at what it logs (permission problems are quite frequent multi-user system)
4. Die

I would try different versions of proton (version 4, 5, 7 and experimental are my "go to"s and/or proton GE

I mostly play single player indie games, but still. The amount of games that I can’t play on Linux can be counted on one hand (sadly on of them EFT). Older games generally work great, very old games can be a bit cranky. I would roughly compare the compatability to windows 7 regarding old games.

You’re password is 100% non crackable assuming the services you use take password security super seriously

Spoiler alert: they don’t

I know some clients show that, but the culture here is generally quite against the concept. Tends to lead to people being scared of going against the majority and creates a hive mind mentality to keep karma high.

My local government news. Call me a sheep but since they don’t farm clicks they seem to have the most nuanced and engaging stories. For-profit news these days are just doom-posting and rage bait.

Imo. You shouldn’t worry about “which distro is best for gaming” since they are all the same under the hood (mostly). There are no real performance benefits with different distros, so just pick one that feels and looks the best for you. I’ve heard that PopOS seems to be quite friendly for newcomers so it should be a good place to start exploring.

I’m pretty sure someone thought

Man it would be nice if horses were faster

I’d say the same is true for terminal emulators.

It would be neat if I could use tabs

Or

I wish there were better ways to render things to the terminal

At the end of the day it’s a black box where you can type commands. If thats all you need than you need anything else.

A terminal is a terminal. If there is a feature you don’t know you need then you don’t need it. Run with whatever you have

Everything I have bought from steelseries (two headsets, a keyboard and a mouse, all mostly the top of the line models) have broken within some years through normal use.

There is still a lot to learn from running arch before you try gentoo

Gentoo is basically arch but built around everything being compiled locally. There isn’t to my knowledge any “Gentoo-install”, but if you can manage to install arch manually it should be quite similar. Gentoo is a bit more complex than arch so if installing gentoo manually seems daunting I would recommend staying on arch.

Try to open the game manually. IIRC protontricks can be used to open the executable with the correct proton instance. Would probably be my go-to first ste4 to start tinkering

Unpopular opinion but

WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE! Seriously. How hard is this rule to understand?

• Linus Torvalds

Forcing Nvidia to update drivers by breaking your system otherwise us not the correct way to do it.