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If you're using a custom WM, your experience is going to vary WRT to Steam/Proton being able to run properly.
What do you mean "custom WM"?
I wouldn't call sway a custom WM, it uses wlroots which has become a standard.
Though I agree that wlroots seem to vary significantly in results with gnome and KDE based Wayland.
seems to me like you made up your own non standard terminology?
There is no single standard DE on Linux. KDE and Gnome are the biggest ones, and most distros ship with flavors for either. So is KDE non-standard if I install it on regular Ubuntu (which ships with Gnome)? And besides, as the commenter above said, wlroots is one of the few big participants in deciding the wayland protocols, so they are most certainly standard, as standard as any wayland compositor.
Steam does not dictate what is standard on Linux. Just because they have not tested with this setup does not mean it isn't standard.
Dude...I'm not even eating my time with y'all who have zero clue as to how QA/CI/UAT works. It's such a waste of time.
Steam/Proton is only tested for KDE/GNOME, and that's it. Hands down. Not even up for fucking debate. It's a FACT.
You can read the docs, repos, GitHub Issues, forums, and everything else you want. That's the facts, and it's not going to change. Just because it's OSS doesn't mean they have all the time in the world to make sure your edge cases work FFS.
I've used Sway on arch, fedora and now nixOS, gaming / (AMD) GPU was never a problem. This seems an NVIDIA issue to me.