flatpak-wine VS Conty

WineZGUI has backup and restore feature. https://github.com/fastrizwaan/flatpak-wine

I've tried LutrisWine and flatpak-wine, and to me, they're just finicky even compared to running using Bottles. I had some issues with Bottles, but with it now having a bottle-chooser when opening .exe from file manager, it works well enough most of the time, for most people.

flatpak run --filesystem=host com.usebottles.bottles (you can replace host with home or ~/Games or other directory. you could also try flatpak-wine https://github.com/fastrizwaan/flatpak-wine

I don't know, both flatpak-wine and winepak seems to not be adopted en-masse.

Yes, just install `flatpak-proton` flatpak and open the wzt file with it. https://github.com/fastrizwaan/flatpak-wine/releases

From the Flatpak install files at https://github.com/fastrizwaan/flatpak-wine/blob/main/io.github.fastrizwaan.flatpak-wine7/io.github.fastrizwaan.flatpak-wine7.yml

Otherwise, you can try https://github.com/fastrizwaan/flatpak-wine but be aware that messing with wine in steam os could make the system unstable.

For the glory of mankind he edited his post saying that running Steam through conty (https://github.com/Kron4ek/Conty) fixed his problem with EAC enabled games.

Have you tried using: Flatpak (use flatseal for other library locations), Conty (use HOME_DIR in case you want to separate it from host's .steam folder), or Distrobox (use Bazzite-Arch image for quick setup)

nah, there is conty to save the day of not dealing with i386

Or go the https://github.com/Kron4ek/Conty way

These ideas I'm toying with also is what made me request the non-image option with Conty here (https://github.com/Kron4ek/Conty/issues/77) where u/Kron4ek speedily patched an option to do so (ty!). Though I'm still pondering what I'm trying to do and if it would make sense with Conty.

I'd imagine the sandbox options are bubblewrap presets, though -- you'd probably want to look around conty-start.sh for more details or ask in the GitHub Discussion.

Have you tried Conty? The best way I could describe it is the combination of distrobox and AppImage. You basically build a single binary (or use the pre-built one the dev made) containing a minimal Arch install and any other packages you listed in the create-arch-bootstrap.sh file.

Do note that with Nobara having Fedora base, some stuff might not have a Flatpak/AppImage or RPM for you to install easily unlike on Debian/Ubuntu-based (tho PikaOS is Nobara re-implemented under Ubuntu-base, but I haven't tested it). Distrobox and Conty may help you with that, but if you were fine with Steam Deck's limitation, you should be alright under Fedora-based distro.

It's why I usually just run Bottles in Conty. nix-unstable also have the latest Bottles builds, though I haven't tested those yet. I don't think the default permissions is a big problem though, just something to note if you store your games outside of areas it has permissions for by default.

Conty https://github.com/Kron4ek/Conty looks interesting, but also relies on an image, here squashfs. Mentioned in this comment along with some more options: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/xq09nf/comment/iqdigoe/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3