I meant something different, and Debian isn't the issue to me here (yes it may not be the most user-friendly distro out there, but that has advantages on its own).

What I don't like here is the approach taken by Steam. In order to ensure the widest possible compatibility with the products being offered, it fiddles with the end-user set-up installing what not (software repos, i386 supbort etc). For my own reasons I'm not allowing that to happen. The same goes for Wine, or any other software/config I am unaware what it does to my system, or has not been explicitly stated as a requirement beforehand.

In this aspect, the approach by Google Play (and F-Droid as well) seems to be better - it scans the target system set-up and offers only the apps suitable to that platform. Etc.

I'm not sure really. I haven't installed it yet. I'm stuck with the set-up of Steam (I guess it is a prerequisite), and was really annoyed when it required setting up i386 support in order to run (Debian 12 here). Would be grateful of any advice on how to proceed.

Great. Nice to know. Thanks

Thank you. That is nice to know. My point is that I just can't spare extra hardware for the game, so I should be extra careful not to mess up my current set-up.

CS2 is a cool game, no doubt. However, what annoys me there is that it requires i386 (32 bit) OS suppport, dropped qulte some time ago by the modern linux distros. In addition, when one needs to install the i386 GPU (Nvidia) drivers as well, the system becomes really unstable.

Not to mention performance. Who uses modern hardware in 32-bit emulation mode anyway?