While true, the last task is to create a general purpose machine so there’s no puzzle anymore. Only thing left to do is to make it go faster.

AFAIK you can skip the “download” by also copying the corresponding .acf file in the parent directory.

Steam starts Proton inside a container and runtime. Maybe those provide some special $stuff for those games.

Shamus was always worth a read: https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?page_id=16412

Sadly there won’t be coming new articles from him.

https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/wine-ge-custom/releases/tag/GE-Proton8-1

Overwatch losing focus after death seems to be fixed