Once installed, I think you can often even run the exe of the pirated game through Steam as a "non-steam app" using Proton

Half of the instructions there are installing tools that you only install once, not every game.

And once you set up Lutris, it's pretty trivial to open .exe files with it.

Not sure what quick settings you mean, but have you tried Bazzite yet? I've been using it on my laptop for several months now, and it's been fantastic. Built for gaming, and it seems to already have a ton of shit set up correctly that id normally need to do myself on Arch

Did you try Desktop Mode on the Deck? Makes things a lot easier. Haven't had much issue with things like this with my Steam Deck, but on Linux PC, I've had none. Ever. Try Bazzite, it's built for gaming.

I would just Google, "using bottles/lutris to install game on Linux" and I imagine you could find people walking through it.

What others said... I think I've even run the installer as a non-steam app through Steam using proton and that worked as well. Unless I'm misremembering.

I also play games on this system, so having newer kernel and Mesa versions help.

I guess I'm that guy in this thread constantly bringing up his current distro of choice lol... But have you tried Bazzite? From what I understand it's basically Kinoite but built with gaming in mind.

If you have, I'd be curious as to what differences there were between it and Kinoite...

I've been using Bazzite for a few months now (switched from EndeavourOS, which was great) and it's been amazing. I'm sold on atomic/immutable. I have never had a PC this stable, including every Windows PC I've had.

And it's perfect for gaming. There are weird little tweaks and settings that I had to do on EOS to get my GPU working correctly, etc., and they all just work out of the box in Bazzite (I did get the iso image made specifically for my laptop, which definitely helps). It's super impressive actually.

And distrobox (BoxBuddy comes installed) can be used to access the AUR or whatever if I feel the need to. Just fire up an Arch box, and have at it.

You can get kits online for pretty cheap, and probably make something like this yourself if you really wanted to. Just get a kit to make a fuzz pedal or overdrive, and do some custom modifications to the enclosure.

I just had a flashback to playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater after school

And here I thought that old "SFW porn gif" reddit sub was an original idea...

That's actually a pretty sick piece of art though.

Leave it up to a civil engineer to ruin your day.

OMG I can feel the heat emanating from that photo