i think many pc games would be relatively lenient with this as long as you can reasonably demonstrate there are no beneficial differences with proton, especially lower on the leaderboard.

honestly i hadn’t given leaderboard verification much thought, but yeah currently i just speedrun for fun and just keep the times/videos for myself.

i would guess that asking somewhere like here dedicated to linux would yield better results than speedrunning-specific communities because everyone uses livesplit. i also like asking this type of question on lemmy/reddit/etc because then someone else can find this if it gets an answer via search engine :)

honestly my frustration might actually be stemming from the monolithic nature of speedrun timers currently. livesplit is the best by a wide margin and does pretty much anything you could want it to do, so reasonably there are few competitors. livesplit also happens to not support linux, which is a little disappointing considering it is basically the de facto free and open timer software.

i don’t see why they wouldn’t be allowed provided you could demonstrate the game runs the same as windows, but also i’m not exactly at the level where i need to worry about the leaderboard cred lol.