wat. “hard to get anything to run”? It’s probably hard if you’re completely new to it, yeah, but Is that just because you don’t know how to use proton and wine? were you trying to pirate linux native versions? Were you using a gaming-oriented distro? And do you know how that distro is supposed to work?

Most Linux distributions you’ve heard of before like, this year, are probably boring, “stable long term support” (out of date) corporate-office-based and programmer-friendly distros and trying to run games on them is like trying to run Windows games on Windows Server Edition. It’s a nightmare, because it’s not intended for gaming, and everything is going to feel like a horrible hack because it is and it sucks don’t do that.

Use Gaming distros for gaming. Use Windows versions of games. Don’t overthink it, pretend you’re on Windows. Forget you’re on even Linux, this is Windows 12 Nobara Edition. Let Proton and Wine and Bottles and launchers like Heroic handle the dirty work of actually managing all that shit for you. There are a few things you will need to figure out how to translate the Windows-focused installation instructions the lazy pirate guys tell you into Linux-compatible installation instructions, because nobody is going to do that for you. It’s not hard, it just takes a little bit of experience and knowledge, which you probably don’t have yet. But once you do, you’re off to the races and everything runs fine. There might be a few hiccups here and there, but there are when you’re first setting up Windows too. Most of the time, with most stuff, it just fucking works. Source: trust me bro.