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Windows 11 has gradually become unusable so I am migrating to Linux. So far it is on the same level of shittines than windows, but at least you know the pain will end at some point. I was hoping for it to be better behaved after so many years, but there is progress. Does anyone know how gaming with legally owned backups of games work?
For current-gen games, you're looking at protonDB. Yes, it's officially meant for Steam, but if you don't want to run it and add them as a non-Steam game, you can easily access the underlying tools using Lutris or Heroic Game Launcher. Lutris tends to be better, in my experience, for legally-owned-backups. Compatibility is good-but-not-perfect -- almost anything mainstream enough to sell through Steam in the last ten years is getting looked at, but marginal games under that bar might not, and a lot of the very popular multiplayer games with anti-cheat have trouble or just won't work.
Older stuff and more marginal games can be rougher. DOSBox works and exists, and there are linux-friendly ports (or native builds) of almost every past-gen console, though quality and performance varies on the PS3+ era. Go really far into the indies and it can be a mess, with some games having Linux-native builds despite being built around an ecosystem that absolutely loathes it, and others only coming up to functionality after a decade of attempted ports and then some random fix in photon-ge solved it.
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