Ziglin (they/them)

Oh lol, that is a lot. I’ve only used ubuntu, Debian, Fedora (i3 spin, which I believe had only dnf as a package manager), endeavouros, arch and researched nixos (which I’m definitely trying next) so I’ve never actually had flatpak preinstalled to my knowledge.

Sounds like a nuisance to get working so I don’t blame you for dual booting but it sounds it probably doesn’t know how to find the location of the binary it should be running.

X/Wayland is fair but most distros and WMs won’t have much of an effect apart from theming when it comes to functionality of most not terribly written/packaged programs.

Wait, what distros use flatpak by default?

Don’t they just run a script?

Back when I used Windows I didn’t use the command line much but did end up in the registry editor relatively frequently (after things broke or I needed to get things and the updates broke things (mouse stopped working, sudden performance drops, undid settings) every couple of updates culminating in Windows breaking its own bootloader and taking grub with it.

I personally found the registry editor really annoying to use and adding enties was quite difficult. I find editing the appropriate file a lot nicer.

Also as far as Linux updates go they have never broken my bootloader or made my system unbootable. Though my graphics drivers did stop working with the LTS kernel and I needed to select the default one again to update my grub config (an issue I would not have had if I had started with the default kernel).

So based on my experience Linux has been more stable and actually runs more programs that I like. The only thing I miss is Rufus which was my favourite ISO burner for USB sticks.

Generally Steam let’s you use Proton on anything with a Windows version, regardless of whether or not it will work. You can also switch versions if needed.

I assume you’re missing a steam setting somewhere.

May I ask what game?