Ten years ago when I first tried to play a game on Linux, with no experience, I was completely lost. I spent a few hours trying to get anything to run and eventually gave up.

Last year when I fully abandoned Windows and moved to Linux; I installed Steam, clicked play on a game, and it just ran no questions asked.

Since, I’ve run into a few titles that claim incompatibility; but when you enable the forced use of Proton to make it compatible; it fires right up, no problem.

Now, I could likely find and use the various compatibility tools without involving Steam; but this path has required 0 effort, it just works. I haven’t had to install and experiment with several packages and mess with configuration and pull my hair put after hours of failure or any of that. Just click play.