nope, never had problems, every game I tried worked or could be persuaded to work - switch wine version, disable/enable the runtime, etc. the setup does taking used to, but once you figure out how to keep separate pfx for every game (yay for btrfs and deduping!), how to run the setup within it and then switch to the installed .exe, it all goes swimmingly. the only thing I don’t understand is why they went with proton-ge as default, as nothing ever ran with it; the predecessor, wine-ge, worked plenty fine.

over the years tried all alternatives - heroic, bottles, fagus, steam even - but none took (or even worked, for that matter), this does everything and conveniently so. it’s possible my misgivings are due to exclusively running cracked games, but at this point I’m just happy everything works.

thanks, here for these things. ran dawarich for a week and it was a disaster, willing to try again.

3, 4 and 6 - no issues on my setup, ever. it’s just with 5 that this was apparent.

shoulda been more verbose… ain’t no manager, when you select “latest” in lutris it downloads the latest proton-ge, that’s item one. then it downloads some steam runtimes, rt something, sniper something, can’t be bothered to repeat the ordeal, then it does the umu thing, spits out phonebooks of log spam and then… it craps out with various statuses. when you run it again, it doesn’t download it again, just runs the stuff downloaded.

anyhoo, I don’t got no steam on my disk and don’t plan on changing that, possibly that might be relevant

happy for you, it’s just plain wine for me. no variant of proton ever worked on any game I tried, so I just gave up on it. your post prompted me to try it again, switched to the default “Proton GE (Latest)” runner, it downloaded tons of stuff and… nope, craps out as usual, no sensible error messages in the logs. switched back to wine, started right up.

samba shares are windows shares, on linux. any os, mobile and desktop, can either access them directly or got a light-weight client for doing so.

you set up one or multiple shares on your server, like one is “family” and other is “steve” and you can define what each user can do to them - just browse, or read, or write to, etc

or if you need just a read-only share, any web server (apache, nginx, etc) can allow access to a folder you shared.

what’s “family members”, are those folks on your LAN? or people on mobile devices or from elsewhere?

if it’s the former, samba shares are easy. the latter, any number of solutions listed here, provided you pay extra, extra attention to firewalls and other mitigations, it’s hell out there wrt automated bots hammering exposed endpoints.