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Not op, but mine is
So far that has covered the problems i ran into, but maybe someone has something to add?
One thing to add to that list:
When checking ProtonDB, cross-reference the environment variables with those listed on the proton-cachyos README. In my experience, most people are copy-pasting environment variables they read from other people without understanding what they do or even if they do anything at all.
Add to the list "Deactivate Steam overlay". That had fixed multiple games for me in the past.
Same here.
And if there no protondb info or it have "platinum", then start praying. Also, god forbid if you want something extra like FSR4 or install some mods. Then you mixing this things to whole "is that my hardware\software\proton issue or game genially bugged?"
last time i had trouble with a game i found out there was a SteamDB thingy where people smarter than me share launch attributes that make games run properly
This is why I play console. I am just too lazy/busy/worn out to learn all that I'd need to know about that side of the gaming world. That's why the steam machine interested me until I saw the price.
I'm afraid we will disappoint you further here, cause steam machine is just a PC with SteamOS (which is "just" an Arch Linux with few tweaks\changes). So all those issues described above and their workarounds also applied to steam machine.
It wasn't an insult. I admire that you guys know that much about computers and software. Its like an alien language to me. Dunno why I was being downvoted for self deprication.
Dunno why the downvotes, but dude, if you ever Google how to do anything on your phone, then you've basically done the above already. Id argue a lot of us don't know what we're doing, we Google thing, someone has an answer, we do the thing, boop things work.
Just trying to make Netflix work on my Xbox head a bunch of issues where I did the steps above to get it to work. It's all the same process, no matter what the hardware
If it helps, not saying anything about you in particular but:
I think because communities like this hear a lot of this kinda pre-emptive defeatism speak. Like "I'm tired and so I don't wanna do something that might make me learn."
It makes them/us sad because we're like "Uh, we'd be happy to help, it's not actually that scary?"
With Linux or PCs in general, people will often show up to the community just to say "Thinky thing is too hard", and declare they've already opened their wallets and run to some highly exploitative and expensive corporate "turnkey solution" instead.
It's also "console propaganda" to spread FUD about PC and now Linux gaming being some alleged huge headache unless you're a professional computer engineer... And that's simply not true.
But also, downvotes don't super matter here, so all I can say is carry on with an open mind and don't be afraid to ask questions, and you never know what you might learn. :)