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I regularly go through my Steam wishlist and remove any game which doesn't support Linux. I am probably the only one, but it is something I do.

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Same here. I don't know why but I do. I know windows software will still basically work after about 10 years, especially now. But I still feel scarred from earlier steam sales where devs just dropped the ball and let their games rot to be only compatible on Windows 7 or jesus even XP.

There's very little money for the most part in updating old games. The same is true with a lot of old books, among other things.

You don't consider if they run using Proton?

Ultimately I want to support devs who support Linux, but if it works on Proton doesn't it also get the flag on steam for support of SteamOS/Linux. I am only going by the Steam flag.

It doesn't get marked for every game that is playable. They have a list of games that are officially supported by Proton but there are so many more that work well that you can play if you enable the option in the Steam settings

No, proton compatibility isn't really signified by the flag as it's not official support. That being said it seems Valve doesn't do much to help promote Proton compatibility either, as the only good resource I know to check compatibility is protondb.com (which you should take a look at by the way).

Some do play with Proton though.

Check out the db https://www.protondb.com/ I have some games playing with proton and there are no issues at all.

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