• MudMan@fedia.io
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    I never encountered that, but Steam can get weirdly stuck on a Proton update or setting if you start manually messing with its library folders. For as much as people like their contributions to the ecosystem it’s still a private, for-profit storefront and they’re not particularly keen on you fiddling with it or in supporting you when/if you do.

    That said, I haven’t had that issue. In theory Proton shouldn’t mess with your native software regardless of your options setting being on or off. Presumably even with it defaulted to on if you switch it off manually things would go back to showing all non-native software as “unavailable” again, right?

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      2 days ago

      No. The slider did not turn off. I hacked the metadata to turn it off. That didn’t work either. Annoying as hell.

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        Yeah, that sucks. I’ve had it get stuck trying to update Proton for a game that no longer existed on an external drive. Steam definitely isn’t as “works every time out of the box” as people around here like to claim, and its reliance on reproducing itself to its last state, even if that state is broken, can be super annoying.

        But hey, I still think having access to all the games it can run in your system should be the default, even if it warns you when you are doing so under Proton.

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          Right. I’m just being cranky because it irritated me. Steam is an outstanding tool. When I had my issues, the linux version was probably less developed.