Don’t get me wrong i love valve and what they have done for gaming as a concept, as a linux i would not Be able to game as i do if it was not for proton.

If I’m reading you right, you’re saying you couldn’t play those games without steam because of proton? If that’s what you’re getting at, if you take your copies obtained from the high seas, you should be able to play them through lutris. It works for me.

His version works though. I use Lutris for everything that isn’t on steam or is a windows program, and it works great.

I don’t know what flavor you were using or how skilled you are in linux, but I’m not very skilled with it at all and use PopOS and I’ve been able to play pretty much everything in my library besides destiny 2 and flight sim x.