#LF help making VRChat on Steam run with Proton-GE

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rustic kite
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If you tried "a trillion things", then surely you covered everything anyone else might have as a suggestion. You should be specific with questions, so that we know what you actually did.

sullen rover
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Yeah

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Fair

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Problem is, my memory is mostly nonexistant

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I don't actually remember much

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I just remember trying so much crap just to see if steam could detect the fkn thing I ended up breaking the whole OS

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As far as I can remember, I DID manage to install Proton-GE

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The real problem was making steam detect it

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Nothing I tried back then worked, but that's about as much as I know

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Being a complete newb with Linux commands definitely doesn't help...

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Then again, we don't really need to be that literal, do we? I thought it was clear I just meant it as like "I tried several things to fix the problem on my own and couldn't manage it"

glass viper
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Yes. You need to be literal.

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If you want help, then we need specific, actionable information on what you have tried and what didn't work with why it didn't work.

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"I tried several things to fix the problem in my own and couldn't manage it" isn't specific enough. I need to know what you did to install proton-ge, I need to know what version of proton you installed, I need to know what error messages you got, I need to know why you think steam isn't detecting proton-ge.

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Otherwise we're wasting your time and ours figuring out something you already tried but didn't work

sullen rover
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Well, alright then

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We don't we keep things simple and easy for everyone?

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I don't know. I don't remember everything I did.

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All I remember is I tried installing proton GE

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Steam did not detect it

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It still doesn't

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I think it's not installed anymore at this point, I'm not sure

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If you guys can gimme any one or more commands to check, I'll be more than glad to use them in Alacritty.

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Or even just what folders to look at. because I haven't touched Linux file systems in more than a decade

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Otherwise, yes. this is all just a huge waste of all our times.

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For what it's worth, this is a Screenshot I just took of Steam's available Proton versions

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As you can see, no "Proton-GE" anywhere there

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That's about all I got.

glass viper
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What folder did you place it in.

rustic kite
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Steam should be showing you any runtimes that you have in /home/<user>/.local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d

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easiest way to manage these is with protonup-qt, which I believe I have installed via flatpak, but might also be a repo-available package

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Looks like it's in the aur on Arch

glass viper
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It certainly doesn't keep my life simple

sullen rover
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Nothing as far as "compatibilitytools.d" shows up. it only goes that far, then gives me those two folder options

rustic kite
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create compatibilitytools.d as needed and place your extracted GE builds there. Or just install ProtonUP-QT from the Discover store and use that to add GE builds to your Steam automatically

sullen rover
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Because you already called me a waste of time before, and now you're calling me lazy

rustic kite
sullen rover
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If you think you're being funny, you're not

rustic kite
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We are granting our own hard-won knowledge to you for free, we are not wrong to expect some effort on your part that shows a desire to understand, rather than just consume our knowledge.

sullen rover
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I'm not your bitch, and I'm trying to learn this shit with honesty and humility. I've given everything I got so far and I already said I have a terrible memory.

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You are not wrong to expect effort, no. you are wrong to be rude and bashful about it

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I am trying to be useful and keep things straight. I already took the l once. and already said whatever command line I gotta do or folder I gotta check for you guys to better help, I'm all ears

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But I do not tolerate disrespect

rustic kite
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I did offer a solution immediately after your screenshot

sullen rover
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I stopped taking it from my own father more than a decade ago. I assure you I am not going to take it from a bunch of internet strangers

sullen rover
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Okay, created the folder

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Now... I need to either reinstall Proton GE or check if I already have it

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I still have no idea where are programs usually installed though. all I know is that there's some command that starts with "ls" that I could use on the console

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Also important note: I do not use snap or flatpak

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In fact I removed both options from my Distro already

rustic kite
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then you've caused your own problems. Don't know how to work on the cli and you've already decided to rip out two useful tools. If you want not to use snaps, the easy answer is not to use Ubuntu, use literally anything else, if you're just gonna unsnap Ubuntu, you're wasting yours and everyone else's time.

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how are you "installing" proton GE?

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because it should be as straightforward as untarring the download into that compatibilitytools directory and restarting Steam

sullen rover
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What's the problem with relying on apt and .deb packages? do I really need to have a trillion different ways to install a program? because I fail to see the logic in that.

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Do you think Discover is also an "useful tool"?

Because after using it a bit, all I saw was a cute gui frontend for lazy end users ( AKA most windows end users ) to not need to learn to have some actual control over their OS with command line

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I want to learn linux properly, and not have to deal with a thousand different ways to install one same program. is that really so much to ask?

rustic kite
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I'm out. Don't @ me bro.

sullen rover
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No argument... k.

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Bye

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Good to know you lovely folks got all the arguments to back up your attitude.

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Legit thought this was gonna be better than the disgusting cesspool that I once dealt with in Arch Linux's help forums

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Guess that's on me