Community-reported compatibility ratings for every Steam game running under Proton, the fastest way to know what to expect before switching.

The equivalent database for non-Steam Windows software and games, rated the same way from Platinum down to Garbage.

Useful for checking whether a Steam game has native Linux support before assuming you'll need a compatibility layer at all.

Ubuntu-based with GNOME, dedicated Nvidia and AMD/Intel ISOs, and gaming-friendly tweaks out of the box.

Fedora-based and purpose-built for gaming by Glorious Eggroll (creator of Proton-GE), available in Official/KDE, GNOME, and KDE variants.

A minimal, terminal-driven graphical installer for Arch itself, with the full Arch repositories and a genuinely helpful community.

An Arch-based, gaming-oriented distro shipping with performance presets like the Zen kernel pre-installed, heavily themed by default.

Use natively for anything you own on Steam — Proton is built in, and routing Steam games through Lutris or Bottles instead only adds unnecessary complexity.

The general-purpose launcher for everything else, using community-maintained install scripts that pre-configure Wine settings for thousands of games automatically.

Purpose-built for Epic Games Store and GOG libraries, with native Proton integration and a much cleaner experience than trying to force those stores through Lutris.

The go-to option when no Lutris install script exists for a game — creates isolated Wine "bottles" per application so settings and dependencies never conflict between games.

The foundational compatibility layer translating Windows API calls into Linux-native calls, everything else on this page builds on top of it.

A community-maintained Proton fork with additional patches and codecs baked in, generally recommended over stock Proton for troublesome games.

A GUI for installing and managing Proton-GE and Wine-GE versions across Steam, Lutris, and Heroic without touching the terminal.

Compositing effects (transparency, animations, shadows) add input latency and overhead. KDE Plasma lets you toggle this with Shift+Alt+F12; GNOME requires an extension since it can't be disabled natively.

Nvidia users should use the proprietary driver over Nouveau for gaming performance; AMD and Intel users get excellent performance from the open-source Mesa drivers included by default in most distros.

Most distros default to a power-saving governor that throttles clock speeds; switching to the "performance" governor keeps your CPU at higher clocks during gameplay at the cost of higher power draw.

Feral Interactive's daemon automatically applies a bundle of performance optimizations (CPU governor, I/O priority, GPU clocks) the moment a game launches, then reverts them on exit.

These reduce Wine/Proton's synchronization overhead between threads. Fsync requires a modern kernel with the feature built in; Esync is the older, more broadly compatible fallback.

Kernels like linux-tkg, Zen, and Xanmod ship with gaming-oriented scheduler and latency tweaks not present in stock distro kernels, and are usually one package-manager install away on Arch-based distros.

Compressed swap in RAM reduces stuttering from memory pressure on systems with limited RAM, especially useful on lower-end hardware running modern titles.

Upscaling that trades a small amount of image quality for a significant framerate boost, available through Gamescope or natively in supporting games.

An open-source alternative to Nvidia Reflex for reducing input latency, works across both Nvidia and AMD hardware.

An in-game performance overlay showing FPS, frame time, temperatures, and GPU/CPU usage, useful for diagnosing exactly where a bottleneck is coming from.

Runs a game in a nested Wayland session, giving you independent control over resolution, framerate cap, and FSR/NIS upscaling regardless of your main desktop's display settings.

Crowdsourced per-game reports on Proton compatibility, including the exact launch options and tweaks other players used to get a title running well.

Deep per-game technical pages covering widescreen fixes, config file locations, and known issues, useful well beyond just Linux.

The most technically thorough general gaming-on-Linux reference available, distro-agnostic despite the Arch branding.

Active community for troubleshooting recent or obscure issues that haven't made it into wikis yet, and for general driver/distro discussion.

A plugin loader injecting extra functionality directly into Steam Deck's Game Mode UI, powering most of the community plugin ecosystem below.

One-click emulator setup and configuration tool, handling install and BIOS/ROM folder structuring for dozens of emulators at once.

Adjusts swap and zram settings specifically tuned for Deck's hardware to reduce stuttering in memory-heavy titles.