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Couple questions about gaming on Linux
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this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2026
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i switched to linux early 2025 and still know very little about it. i tried several distros and finally landed on pop!_os, which worked out of the box for me running AMD cpu and RTX 5070. i tried lutris and heroic and bottles but didn't have much luck, definitely because of my lack of linux knowledge, but steam with proton GE latest works fine for 99% of games for me. there's an issue in some games where the mouse doesn't work properly for some reason, but i learned that logging out of the DE and back in fixes it
How do you have steam&proton installed? Snap/flatpak/apt?
if you go the steam site https://store.steampowered.com/about/ and hit install i think it detects your OS and chooses the correct install package. on mine it starts a download for a .deb file, i think that installs it natively? i know so little... but if you search up "install steam" plus whatever distro i'm sure you'll find a lot of info
It does install correctly for your distro, and that way is full system access .deb file, flatpak is next best from what I read but when I setup my system VR required the .deb as flatpak and snap would not grant correct permissions and I am so far removed from when I used to live on the command line that I have forgotten many many things I used to take for granted. No longer a power user, I just want it to work