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Machinarium and Botanicula on Steam doesn't provide native Linux versions, but at least both games have "Platinum" support on Proton. Found a native Linux copy of Machinarium from HumbleBundle. To get it running on Fedora 31 I had only to install single missing dependency: `sudo yum install libXt.i686`

Well, now I'll probably have to beat the game, while I'm at it.

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On of the first Humble Bundles for Linux games came with a Deb package of the game.

The game is a Linux i386 binary, which means that installing directly on your host will pull in all sorts of i386 libraries. If you host is amd64, it is quite messy.

Looks like Proton does a better job than snap or rpm. I don't get why there is no Linux layer dedicated to translating x32 library calls into x64 calls. The other way around is often impossible I know.

Because historically the Linux userland community has a willful disregard for binary, and often source, backwards compatibility.

Proton is a packaged Wine (Windows emulator) with DXVK (like DirectX for Linux).

Snap packages are based on core images, so if there was interest, they could create a core image that has Wine and DXVK. Then any game would result Wine and DXVK.

RPM is comparable to Deb packages. There is no significant separation of one package from another apart from file permissions.

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