If everything extracted you should be able to add the main .exe from the game folder to Steam now as a non steam game and use Proton that way (or do similar via Bottles or Lutris if you prefer).

Tricky part sometimes depending on the game is getting the right exe. I like bottles since you can do the Run executable to install which auto adds the .exe to bottles at the end, I needed this for Boltgun since I was picking a way wrong exe.

Best part is it's $5000 because they get to name their price. These sensors, headlights, etc, cost nowhere near that, but where else are you gonna go get em?

So in a few years when your new car has depreciated to somewhere around 10k and you get a massive repair bill? Well most people are scrapping it and getting another car, convenient for them....

Install them with Bottles or Lutris

Same here, saw the writing on the wall after 7 and tried Linux gaming a few times but it was rough back then so I always came back. I did however start at least dual booting with 7 onwards so apart from gaming I was a convert at that time.

This year finally got tired of all the crap, them trying to railroad AI junk in, ruining the control panel, absolutely BURYING settings, turning ones back on with updates, the entire operating system is a dark pattern when it used to be so much more streamlined. Switched to Bazzite and it feels like I'm almost back to Windows 7 except I don't have to install drivers or anything, just install it, add any apps through the store and you're off. What they've done to windows is ridiculous to me and I'll never come back.

Chronically online detected: please go outside

I used Lutris before but I do Bottles now, fitgirl worked on both fantastic for me

They used to dominate the consumer market prior to Ryzen so might have something to do with it but I got no evidence lol

JetBrains IDEs for me

When was the last time you ran a distro and how awful was the hardware to have this experience? In the past 10 years all of them have been fairly "hit the ground running" for me unless it had something weird like Nvidia Optimus

I never bothered with it but I'm sure you could. I just public domain everything I design since it's a lot of older automotive stuff and I'd rather it be readily available.

Weird mine was $0

AirVPN, for over a decade and they've kept my ports the whole time