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New to Linux—Epic Games compatibility? (Plus more)
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This is excellent! Each step can be Googled but for a quick summary:
A wine or proton prefix is like a small Windows filesystem inside your Linux. This is how you run most games. Steam normally hides this from you, but it does this exact thing: one proton prefix per game.
On Nobara and Fedora, you will not need to worry about duplicating files and wasting space at all: they use a very advanced filesystem which (among other things) does not actually repeat files but just goes "this file is the same as the earlier one, just read that" and saves on disk space that way. You don't see this in the file explorer, you can just copy a file a hundred times but it will not consume a hundred times the disk space. Very cool stuff. And very useful with proton tricks.