Steam

Steam runs natively on Linux. You can probably just install it from your App store.

Usually you want to use Steam (Runtime). Only use Steam (native) if you know why you want to use it.

Enable Steam Play for all games

In order to run games that are not explicitly whitelisted by Valve, go to Steam -> Settings -> Steam Play and check "Enable Steam Play for all other titles" and then select "Proton Experimental" in the drop down menu.

If something doesn't work, check out Proton-GE.

ProtonUp-Qt

You can use ProtonUp-Qt to make the installation and update process of Proton-GE simple:

• 1. Download the ProtonUp-Qt AppImage
• 2. Mark the AppImage as executable
• 3. Double-click the AppImage to run ProtonUp-Qt

Launch Options

You may find something like -screen-width 1280 -screen-height 720 -screen-fullscreen 0 on protondb. These are launch options.

To use them, you right click on the game, and in the general tab, there is a field called launch options. You paste them (for example -screen-height 1920 -screen-width 1080 -screen-fullscreen) in there.

Steam Tinker Launch

Steam Tinker Launch is a swiss army knife tool that allows easy customization of multiple options for Steam games.

It includes override/append/prepend custom commands, automatic use of Vortex or Mod Organizer 2, (auto-) download/update of Proton GE, Proton/DXVK/wine options, winetricks, automatic ReShade installer per game, easy shader selector, FSR support, debugger support, side-by-side VR automation, SteamGridDB support, SpecialK, Proton KillSwitch, Gamescope, GameMode, and more.

You can find a more comprehensive list of features in the wiki (dropdownlist on the right).