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Installing games is same as Windows, download and launch via Steam. As for lack of FPS, willing to bet you had an Nvidia card but didn't install the drivers for it.
You click the game on Steam, click "install". That's the same on Windows or Linux, the client doesn't change.
Going from 144fps to 2fps sounds like a graphics driver issue to me, what was the problem then?
uh... ok. It really is that simple, I play games everyday on Linux and that is exactly how I've installed 100s of games, so I'm really not getting it... Are you talking about enabling Steam Play in the Steam settings or something?
I don't know why you are telling me this, I'm not the King of Linux or anything. Just thought I might help you with your problem, I don't know what I did for you to unload all this on me lol
Ah, I wasn't the original person you replied to sorry. If it isn't Nobara or Bazzite, chances are most distros will require tweaking to get gaming to an acceptable level.
Then you disabled Steam Play.
As a long time openSUSE user I know for a fact that you're wrong.
And you're the only one!
Just for shits and giggles I fired up a VM and did a clean Steam installation from Flathub. This is the default:
Steam Play (=Proton) is on for supported Windows games. For unsupported games it's off.
Wait, you had so much trouble to look if the "Enable Steam Play" checkbox was ticked? 🙄
Nah, we all get the point. You claim that Steam does not come with Proton on regular Linux distributions but you're wrong which is an easily googlable fact you continue to deny. If your installation of Steam is somehow broken, that's specific to you. At most the “Enable Steam Play” checkbox has to be ticked in Steam's settings.
Yeah, the whole world is wrong. You're the only one knowing the truth.