Steam is dropping support for Ubuntu
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# localectl set-locale LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
once you shell out as root to a prompt. After that, it is all the normal apt-get action you get on other variants.
One game for instance, will start with the games display rectangle offset by the gnome top bar under wayland but not in xorg. Another game but the same publisher has the same issue in xorg but not wayland. Another by the same publisher again relied on a dependency that got removed from the base distro between 16.04 and 18.04.
I'm not sure if any other distros are better, but I've seen issue like this sit in the ubuntu bug tracker for years before getting closed with no resolution, switching users for instance doesn't seem to have worked for the better part of a decade.
Or well at least moving us one step closer to that fabled year of the Linux desktop