[whalesalad]

I was pretty blown away by how simple and straightforward the experience was for me recently on Debian 12.

* Go to app store (flatpak) and install Steam

* Launch and login to Steam

* Install Helldivers 2

* Launch the game. Done! Everything "just works"

[dpkirchner]

Even games with EAC and Battleye ("anti cheats") work well. That was pretty surprising.

[jsheard]

YMMV there depending on the specific game, both of those anti-cheats can work on Linux but the developer of the game has to opt-in to allow it since their Linux implementations are much easier to bypass than their Windows ones. There's games like Rust which use EAC but have refused to enable its Linux support for that reason.