I had this dread too! I thought it would be incredibly time consuming but it ended up being a 30 min job (when I’d spent at least 4 days trying to make steam work on Ubuntu). Distro hopping is definitely one of the best features of Linux.

I’m not sure if mint is completely the same, but on Ubuntu you can easily make a bootable USB of another distro using this method: https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/create-a-usb-stick-on-ubuntu#2-requirements

You’d then back up your data, and restart your computer and then, depending on the computer, it might either start the distro installation or you’ll need to go into bios and configure your computer to boot from USB.

It sounds more complicated than it is, but there are lots of online tutorials to show you how to do it. Just make sure to back up your data first just in case.

I had the exact same problem with Ubuntu trying to get steam games to run. Unfortunately I could not resolve it and was advised to move to another distro. I chose Fedora and now everything works perfectly without having to make any adjustments. I know it’s not the answer you’re looking for, but it is a solution.

I did, but only by installing another distro (Fedora).

Yeah this is what I ended up doing. Switched to Fedora and everything works perfectly! I’ve only been using Linux for about 6 months so I’m still getting my feet wet.

so it turns out that no games run on steam! The only thing I can get to work is minecraft at the moment, and that doesn’t use steam!

So I’ve tested it thoroughly and it turns out I can’t run any games except ones like FTL. It’s very weird and I’m exhausted by it!

Okay I’ll try that too! Thanks!

I think this is exactly the issue I’m having. The launcher is failing to launch. How did you get around this and kill the launcher and just start the game?

I’m going to try this.

I do have wine installed yeah

Snaps I believe

I could not get Lutris to run at all. It kept on crashing.

That was one of the things I tried today and I couldn’t get Lutris to run! I’m wondering if something is fundamentally wrong with my Ubuntu install

Thank you, for some reason even that didn’t work

Weirdly I cannot toggle the steam overlay on it is greyed out but I believe it is off. And I have Compatability > For the use of… ticked and proton experimental selected.