With Proton being as good as it is now, do we still need separate prefixes for every game?

• Proton

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  Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components

  

That wouldn't help with your issue. You're talking about this: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/2691

• proton-ge-custom

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  Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components

It's the second line of the readme

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• duperemove

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  Tools for deduping file systems

With Btrfs or XFS you can easily deduplicate the data with tools like duperemove, potentially saving a lot of space if you've installed many small games.

• steam-for-linux

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  Issue tracking for the Steam for Linux beta client

  

Valve says it's okay to do with their Proton; precisely because this containerization is already handled by them. And, officially supported in Steam. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/5677

• configs-scripts

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  My configs and scripts. Public domain, do whatever.

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

• protonfixes

  11 103 8.2 Shell

  A module for applying fixes at runtime to unsupported games with Steam Proton without changing game installation files (by GloriousEggroll)

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

Suggest a related project