It is highly recommended that you use Lutris, Heroic Launcher or Bottles to prepare an environment for the SW you are trying to run. This offers the most flexibility.
To use the official Steam Proton, you need to add an "external game" which will be the SW you want to run.
Elden Ring for every season, it's rough out there....
Real talk: I waited 2 years to play Elden Ring with the DLC so I'm all set for Autum and Winter.
Then Space Marine 2, but I will finish Space Marine 1 first.
Save 99% on the Crew 2...
Almost the GDP of Rwanda.
That's near the GDP of Belize.
The more you know...
A nightly build is expected to be very unstable and is just for checking the changes developers do. If you are not interested in checking the latest/changes of the day then go for beta which is slightly more reliable or go for fully stable.
I'm testing Zen browser at the moment, if you want to give that a try.
They did everything together and were business partners
Wrapper and AUR helper.
Is that you?, Crowdstrike?
Bro, install a custom kernel from the AUR and switch all your software to the git versions, just add -git at the end of each package. Do not use pacman, what are you? afraid of life?, use yay like everyone else.
^I ^use ^arch, ^btw.
Gaming: I just Steam for most games, I use Proton GE for better performance in some games
General SW: For things that are light and work with Wine, I will use just that. For SW that needs the Windows "runtime" like the Xbox Accessories SW for my Elite controller, I use a VirtualBox.
Most of my needs are covered by regular Linux apps, such as a Browser, Development environment and Media.
You are right, the article and the users on Twitter are all blaming Google and the AI but the blame is at the source of information.