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submitted 23 hours ago by majster@lemmy.zip to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

I'm a long time Linux user that hasn't gamed much in years. Previously I tried it by installing wine and going from there but I had to manually hunt for DLLs so I gave up. So I have recently installed Bazzite and stuff that I want is working :) But I'm not a huge fan of Bazzite outside of gaming. So how does one reasonably setup gaming stuff on another distro? Is flatpak the way? On Ubuntu you have many different ways to install Steam for example. What about Proton? I saw people wrangling multiple versions for different games.

If someone can point me to somewhere where tech landscape is explained it would be great.

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[-] majster@lemmy.zip 3 points 22 hours ago

How do you have steam&proton installed? Snap/flatpak/apt?

[-] Z745812939054@lemmy.zip 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

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

[-] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 2 points 15 hours ago

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

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