Sure, finding games on the high seas is easy enough on my windows machine, but if I’m on my linux partition and want to play a game that would otherwise work if I bought it in Steam with proton, how would I go about getting the game to run?

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You can use Lutris. But if you don’t want to go that way, you can simply use proton directly.

I have a script that I use on my linux machine that automatically detects an “exe” file in the same directory and runs it via proton. With that I’ve been able to play non-steam games easily enough.

There are plenty of tutorials online on how to run proton via CLI, here’s one

EDIT: As @nottheengineer@feddit.de said, you can also add exe files to Steam and have it run that way. Its probably the easier way compared to running it via terminal

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I’m pretty sure you are not supposed to run proton outside of steam. You can try using something like wine-ge instead with basically exact same results though

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