configs-scripts VS protonfixes

You can't combine them, and if you try, you're almost certainly going to have a bad time. But on a BTRFS file system, you can deduplicate all the data between them. I run that script on my own setup, and the space savings from so doing are significant.

Prefix deduplication has massive space savings potential. I made a script that you can run periodically that handles running duperemove on installed Proton versions and the compatdata folder for BTRFS filesystems: vacuum-steamplay

I also dislike the spacious padding that GTK tends to use. I have tweaks that I use for GTK3 gtk.css that make the UI more compact. We can almost certainly still do that here, we just need to sit down with the Adwaita demo and the GTK inspector and just start poking and tweaking.

The only way to change the UI density is with xdg-config/gtk-{3,4}.0/gtk.css. You can use @import to split the changes across multiple files. Here is what I use to slim down GTK3. You also need this tweak for the headerbar height to not be decided by an invisible "sizing box".

Have you tried to: * update ProtonGE (I use version 7-49 but I see 7-50 was released yesterday) * remove the file /home/deck/.local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d/GE-Proton7-49/protonfixes/gamefixes/1097150.py (source here)

"wmp9_ge" and "klite" custom winetricks verbs, you can download them from here

Fixes should land in GE-Proton7-34: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/protonfixes/pull/94

^ And Proton-GE, if you use it, will automatically fetch packages it knows that you need. This isn't all that common though.

I suppose save game detection and folder merging could be done on a per-game basis with something like protonfixes.

It has a script with known fixes for each game e.g persona 4 script is here

There are kinda two levels of "game fixes". There are out-of-tree patches to Wine that were made to fix specific games but are not yet sufficiently tested or might present some other problems that prevent them from being included in upstream Wine yet. These are included in wine-ge, yes. Then there are "protonfixes", these are specific to Steam. They are Python scripts that run before the game is started to install dependencies or make other changes to the prefix that are required to run that specific game. Since they use Steam codes to reference the games, they can't work outside of Steam, so these are not in wine-ge. If you use Lutris to install games, then Lutris has install scripts that can do the same job, so it generally cover for it.