I Hate Native Linux Games

This is just a vent post / unpopular opinion (? unsure if unpopular). Specifically on Steam. Linux native builds are so buggy and glitchy and never work right. Always some combination of:

• No sound
• Old outdated version missing content and incompatible online
• Controllers don't work
• Crashes, doesn't launch at all
• Horrific FPS
• Cutscenes don't play
• Weird game breaking softlocks and logic errors, like critical items not spawning and dialogue not triggering
• Zero support and low priority from the developer

I have none of these issues with Proton. Proton works perfectly fine, I love it. This only happens when a game doesn't use Proton. As soon as I change to Proton all issues are resolved. This problem has followed me across distros with fresh installs, so it's not a config issue. Yes I have the correct drivers and such, NVIDIA proprietary unfortunately. It's so strange, you'd imagine the native build would run better not worse.

The worst part is, it's not easy to tell when a game will launch using Linux native as it's the default priority. Games can even silently update and stop working when they gain Linux native "support". You have to manually go in to properties and override compatibility to proton. Normally I do this when I notice a suspiciously large amount of bugs and I'm like hmm... oh look it's Steam Linux Runtime 1.0 again.

I wish there was a way to just force Proton globally. Either that or people actually test and maintain their Linux builds. I'd rather there be no Linux build at all if they're going to be so terrible.