In the meantime you can use this. Feel free to ask if you need further help.

Edit: I found this guide. Hope it helps!

Assuming when you created the bottle, you chose "gaming", it will use "soda" as it's default runner, which is based off of proton. Maybe try going into preferences, runners, then click on "Soda", and try messing around with different versions.

According to the latest ProtonDB reports of Ape Out, Proton 8.0-5 was being used. Looking at my available "Soda" runners in bottles, I see soda-8.0-2,soda-9.0-1, and soda-experimental_8.0 as the latest runners available. I would try using those runners as a start.

Also, (I only now just noticed it), under preferences, in General, there is an "Integrations" section. Under that there's "Steam Proton Prefixes", which (I assume) allows you to use Proton prefixes.

Here are the following commands, depending on your installation method of Steam to give permissions to Steam's path if it doesn't have it already.

Steam non-Flatpak:

flatpak override --user com.usebottles.bottles --filesystem=xdg-data/Steam

Steam Flatpak:

flatpak override --user com.usebottles.bottles --filesystem=~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/data/Steam

Alternatively you can use Flatseal and add the path: ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/data/Steam

Undoubtedly

I just hope they don't update their previous titles to require a PSN account.

I would say wait to buy an AMD card (but you do you). Wayland Explicit Sync is out in the 555 driver, and NVK is cooking.

I take pride in being able to represent Linux through a "stupid hardware survey."

Wow. I've gotten quite a few Steam Survey requests throughout the years; from what I can tell, it picks users 'at random'. I've also read very mixed things on whether or not you can do it yourself, eg; go into settings and choose to do it?? Or run some command/dialog on Steam startup??

Maybe I'm just nostalgic but I think a classic IPA doesn't need a modern twist. I'm all for IPA open sourcing their beer; heck, free beer is good enough for me.

In all seriousness though, I already saw a user recommend kanidm. I can vouch for kanidm; written in Rust, it allows offline authentication and offline caching of user info, which is really handy if you're in a situation with poor internet connectivity. kanidm is feature rich:@g5pw@feddit.it already mentioned OAuth2 support, LDAP, RADIUS; etc. It even supports TOTP!! Kanidm doesn't support SAML IIRC, But SSO can be achieved through OAuth2 with OIDC.

From kanidm's Github:

Kanidm aims to have the features richness of FreeIPA, but without the resource and administration overheads. If you want a complete IDM package, but in a lighter footprint and easier to manage, then Kanidm is probably for you. In testing with 3000 users + 1500 groups, Kanidm is 3 times faster for search operations and 5 times faster for modification and addition of entries (your results may differ however, but generally Kanidm is much faster than FreeIPA).

https://github.com/kanidm/kanidm

Google can go to hell.

*the glowies entered the chat

I already did some searching and found that games can be played offline fine (most of them, some exceptions are there like Multiplayer and Mortal Kombat)

Yes, most games will work offline just fine even with a multiplayer mode. (You just won't be able to access multiplayer.) I believe you can still play Mortal Kombat 11 offline but it locks you out of a lot of content IIRC.

There is something like the paid Nintendo Online Account. I am not planning on having a paid account. How much of the system depends on the account?

The account creation is completely free. You can even make a local account but you won't be able to play games online or use the eshop without making a Nintendo account. The only thing you "need" to pay for is a $20 annual Nintendo Switch Online subscription to play your games online. (Note that all games don't require the Nintendo Switch Online subscription, but most do. This includes all of Nintendo's first party IP's.)

Can I have progression in a game (let’s say: one of the Zelda franchise) and will my Wife and Kids all have their own progression, without having to pay for X accounts?

All of your games will have separate saves with different profiles. Note that all of the accounts you make don't need a Nintendo Account, so you can make a Nintendo Account for yourself (which is free) if you want the features it comes with, and local accounts for your wife and kids, and any game they play will have different saves that won't conflict with your saves. The only exception to this that I know of is Animal Crossing New Horizons. You can have different accounts and players on one Switch but you are limited to only one island per console.

People who own a Switch, let’s take this to extremes, do you feel like in 20 years from now you can still do the same things on your hardware as you can do now? (No multiplayer is fine)

Personally, I'm not sure how long the Switch's hardware will last. If the durability and longevity of Nintendo's other consoles are anything to go by, I'd say it has a fair shot of lasting a while; with the exception of maybe a battery replacement and/or new thermal paste. I have both the OG model and an OLED model, and I can say for certain that the OLED model runs cooler and quieter than my OG model. Even if the Switch's hardware fails I will always have my games and saves backed up on my PC so I can always play my games through an emulator on more powerful hardware.

Edit: I completely forgot to mention joycons. I think these will be the first things that get replaced with any amount of long-term use. I've already gone through 4 pairs on my OG switch because of joycon drift. My OLED is holding up fine though (thankfully), but I think the cheaper option would be to just replace the joycon's thumb-sticks with hall-sense sticks, and they should (in theory) last quite a bit longer.

I did end up realizing they might not live in a country that cares about piracy, and should have mentioned they might not even need a VPN. Thanks for the correction.