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Good call! I already did this.. wasn't sure if there was a better way other than installing steam on the vm and logging into my steam account to see which ones were installable. I suppose this doesn't tell me how well they'll play though does it.. 🤔
protondb.com will tell you how well an individual game will play, as well as any tinkering steps you might have to use (in the comments)
Proton can run any Windows-only game on steam, you just have to enable it in the settings. The ones for which you didn't have to enable this either have a native linux version, or are officially supported in Proton, and should run very well. The other games may have more issues, but even those might work excellently out of the box.
ProtonDB is a pretty helpful site to gauge the compatibility of any given game. Users report their own hardware, distro, and Proton version(s) tried, along with a summary of how well it all worked.
Something like "proton your_game_here".
Beware that on the Linux land you're on your own. People say "things just work except [something]". I don't say that because it feels like moving the goal post every time something gets fixed just to face the next problem for a niche person like me.
The reality is, you never know. My favorite title apparently worked in 10fps. Nobody could figure out why. Then some update on something suddenly fixed it and that's when people finally confirmed it was a software bug all along.
Even people saying Linux can play any game admits "if you can't spend good efforts, you're not for Linux."
Happy gaming!