protontricks VS steamos-compositor

Just played games on Linux for the first time. It's way easier than I originally thought since Proton is integrated into Steam client. Can even run non-Steam games through Steam client but had to use protontricks to add dependencies like Visual C++ redistributables.

We'll be needing Protontricks to install those packages into our Proton session of our game (each steam game has their own one). You can install it here https://github.com/Matoking/protontricks.

ALSO if a mod has some kind of external dependency, like if it specifically mentions needing VisualC or .NET Runtime, Protontricks will be a lifesaver for installing these into Proton prefixes. Might not need it often, but could come in handy to know anyways.

The version of steam.py on Github is, annoyingly, different than the one I have.

Now, what I was trying before just setting the version was to use protontricks, you can install it in the software repository in desktop mode. Then follow the flatpack install instructions

Maybe it would be better if we had compatibility with FW in Linux without the use of third-party tools? Those tools are ProtonPreloader, Protontricks, and SteamTinkerLauncher. If so, how can we help the Flawless Widescreen Developer with this?

For Steam games / Proton, protontricks is your friend. Do not use WINE tools / winetricks from a "foreign" WINE install on Proton prefixes.

Proton is a fork of Wine, you won't need to use Wine itself. Looks like protontricks can also setup wine-nine-standalone for you.

I assume that this is because I'm still using ye olde steamos-compositor (https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamos-compositor/.) I'm interested in switching to gamescope (https://github.com/Plagman/gamescope) but I'm getting the feeling it won't work on my 20.04 vintage Ubuntu; the required version of meson isn't available and I can't find a PPA that contains gamescope. My instinct act this point is to just live with the pain, as fully dealing with this will likely involve just switching all the way to Arch to more closely match the newest SteamOS and I just don't want to do that right now. Anyone know if there is a middleground that will support a modern steam big picture mode without having to totally redo everything?

They've written two, actually. One for X11, and a new one for Wayland

SteamOS compositor with commits from Valve devs: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamos-compositor/commits/...

I'm sure they also have/had contractors working on it like they do for the other Linux gaming effors but a claim that it was "was only contracted-out by Valve" needs something to back it up.