In the future, you just need to make sure the game is running on Proton. You might need to change the Proton version.

Just clicking those drop-down options will be the majority of “troubleshooting” you’ll have to do to get games working.

I’m a huge fan of Aurora, the least popular ublue desktop OS. Bazzite is great, too. But I prefer Aurora.

Hell, even my wife uses it and has no complaints.

Unfortunately, CEOs are really only good for one thing. Saying nothing by spouting a bunch of corporate jargon.

There is a better way. Instead of compiling when you launch the game, you can enable background processing of shaders. This will happen while you’re not gaming. If you don’t do other stuff on that computer while you’re not gaming and it is turned off or asleep instead, it might not help.

People think I’m crazy to not claim free games from Epic. I don’t, and won’t even have an account on that cursed platform.

Instead of Kinoite, I’d suggest either Bluefin or Aurora. They’re made by the same group as Bazzite.

Instead you’ll spend your time littering your own computer with bloatware!

Bazzite is Fedora and you can get it in KDE Plasma or Gnome flavors.

You can use Fusion 360 in Linux with Wine. But instead of even trying that, I used my switch to Linux as the catalyst to switch to FreeCAD. Using FOSS just feels so much nicer.

If you’re not on it already, join the discord. Lots of helpers there. I recommend sticking with Bazzite and learning how to use it better. It has the tools you need to run anything you could run in any other distro. You just can’t always copy and paste commands from a Google search. But that’s where the discord can set you straight.

I fully expect within 10 years individuals will be able to use AI to build decent to good quality games in relatively little time.

You vastly overestimate the ability of AI, vastly underestimate the complexity of making games, of both.

Bazzite > Bluefin > Aurora in usership from what I’ve seen. I started on Bazzite KDE but ended up staying with Aurora.

I can’t stand GNOME, but I understand that other people like it.

People who say Bazzite isn’t for tinkerers just misunderstand it. It’s extremely tinker friendly, just not in the ways people are used to.

I’d say it’s actually a lot more tinker friendly because it’s super easy to revert changes.

Steam OS is not, and will not be a good desktop OS. At least in the foreseeable future. If you want that kind of experience now, install Bazzite.

Try Bazzite. Easy, beginner friendly, but very God hardware support and up to date.

And then to stick it to the man further you’re running Linux of course, right?

Guess I’m just never playing it, then.

So many thousands of amazing games I can play instead.

I just skimmed your post and it didn’t sound familiar. I’m out of the house right now, but I checked Steam on my phone, and I’ve definitely played it.

I own both Shadowgrounds and Caster.

Caster is a short, janky, lovable mess. It has real “this is my passion project and first ever video game” vibes.

Shadowgrounds was forgettable, but I vaguely remember enjoying it.