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Here's a step-by-step guide:
Zero issues.
#4 is the main reason I’m hesitant to install games from Steam instead of alternative versions of the game that don’t have this limitation. But then installing games on Linux often becomes a time-consuming feat of trial and error.
To add to this-
One of the biggest traps for new linux users since forever has been to jump straight into the deep end- tweaking any and every tunable- then when that inevitably all breaks, blaming Linux and moving back.
For anyone reading- You don't need Arch as your first distro, you don't want to on the bleeding edge unless you're prepared to bleed. You don't need things like Golden Eggroll Proton or any external launchers.
Just keep it simple to start- Something like Mint, SuSE or plain Fedora with Steam using the built-in Proton.
Bazzite gets... let say 'advertised' a lot and it's got a lot of good ideas - but if you're coming from Windows I think it's just too much - it's an immutable system* with containers for everything. That's an ocean away from Windows unless you were comfortable with Sandboxie beforehand (if you were, dive right in)
*\the system is read only, you cannot change anything in the default image, ie. imagine if you were never allowed to add files to c:\windows
Edit: For the newbs, an ancient meme- https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/by-others/funroll-loops/Gentoo-is-Rice.html
I know its not important, but it is actually Glorious Eggroll.
If you only play new popular games, and buy them on steam (and not GOG which is a platform that's far more aligned with the linux way of thinking), sure. But i've got plenty of old steam games that have issues, or require me to muck around with custom control stuff, have warnings that they might not be fully supported, ...
I love that we're all moving to linux to be free, and then be using steam iso GOG XD.
Step by step guide for GOG (or Epic):
(Heroic will use Proton or Wine for the compatibility layer and you will (most of the time) have zero issues with playing games)
There are Issues.
You think you're describing a problem with Linux, but you're just describing a problem with the game. If it's not on steam it would be the same way on Windows. It will most likely be in a different, less popular and barely supported launcher. By then it is the publisher who is screwing you up, not Linux.
I was simply offering a case where steam isn't the simple solution to gaming on Linux, as described by the post above.
I never said I was describing a 'problem with Linux' or a 'problem with the game'.
Not all games are available on Steam or will work with steams proton/wine/whatever.
Game publishers have the right to choose how and where they publish their games. If I can't install and play them on my machine I simply won't. AS there is already an endless list of great games I haven't played.