[Arkanosis]

For games, give Lutris a try.

For years, I've been reluctant to use Wine wrappers like PlayOnLinux, for no reason other than I don't like wrappers. I always ended up getting everything working with bare Wine, but at the cost of long hours (sometimes even days) of experiments.

I've started using Lutris a few months ago (I gave up on getting Wine and DXVK play well together) and, well, that's a life changing experience so far: everything works out of the box. I has taken all the fun out of Wine configuration for me ;)

[xmichael999]

Lutris looks cool, given steam using Proton or whatever it is called is there an advantage to using this today? Thanks for educating me!

[Arkanosis]

If all your games are available in Steam, I see no advantage in using Lutris: in my experience, Proton works very well out of the box.

For games that aren't available in Steam, Proton is of little help AFAIK, and that's where Lutris shines.

Also, some people like having all their games in a single place, in which case Lutris may be a solution too, even for Steam games. As my “single place for games” is my shell, I usually skip Lutris and Steam GUIs to start games directly anyway, so…