Am an IT professional (and also happen to have a degree in politics, i’ve had a weird life), can confirm.

Am an IT professional (and also happen to have a degree in politics, i’ve had a weird life), can confirm.

From your other comments you seem to have a system simmilar to mine. I use mint, and i’m very happy with it, feature rich and ubuntu based, without the features you dislike like snap.

Only real step requirs for gaming has been installing some overclocking and heat management stuff like corecntrl, as well as some 32 bit archetecture stuff to run steam.

From my understanding that was actually the EU and the UK just fallowed suit because we’re dependent on EU supply chains.

My understanding is that there are modules you can install to AD join a linux machine, i don’t know much about it unfortunatly because it’s not something i’ve ever had to do. I’m also unclear whether there is a different process per distro type.

I would speak to your company IT about it tbh.

But proton isn’t an emulator? It’s an API converter

Ok so I’ve fixed it, appears to have been an issue with the tool having come from my backup rather than installed directly.

couldn’t uninstall due to “missing shared content” so i deleted the file and verified integrity so it downloaded them - everything is now running perfectly, tried a few different games and they are working great.

cheers for all the help!

steam steam://rungameid/6060 steam.sh[7146]: Running Steam on linuxmint 21.2 64-bit steam.sh[7146]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically setup.sh[7263]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date! steam.sh[7146]: Steam client’s requirements are satisfied [2023-09-02 19:26:36] Startup - updater built Jul 28 2023 18:44:09 [2023-09-02 19:26:36] Startup - Steam Client launched with: ‘/home/lewis/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/steam’ ‘steam://rungameid/6060’ 09/02 19:26:36 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1690583737)/tid(7342) [2023-09-02 19:26:36] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/lewis/.steam/debian-installation/package/steam_client_metrics.bin) [2023-09-02 19:26:36] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal [2023-09-02 19:26:36] 1. https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com, /, Realm ‘steamglobal’, weight was 1000, source = ‘update_hosts_cached.vdf’ [2023-09-02 19:26:36] 2. https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com, /client/, Realm ‘steamglobal’, weight was 1, source = ‘update_hosts_cached.vdf’ [2023-09-02 19:26:36] 3. https://cdn.steamstatic.com, /client/, Realm ‘steamglobal’, weight was 1, source = ‘baked in’ [2023-09-02 19:26:36] Verifying installation… [2023-09-02 19:26:36] Verification complete XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xe80eb9c0 XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xe80ea1f0 /usr/share/themes/Mint-Y-Teal/gtk-2.0/main.rc:1053: error: unexpected identifier ‘direction’, expected character ‘}’ GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good steamwebhelper.sh[7368]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/lewis/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy steamwebhelper.sh[7368]: glibc >= 2.34, partially disabling sandbox until CEF supports clone3() CAppInfoCacheReadFromDiskThread took 112 milliseconds to initialize BRefreshApplicationsInLibrary 1: 69ms BuildCompleteAppOverviewChange: 571 apps RegisterForAppOverview 1: 19ms RegisterForAppOverview 2: 20ms /home/lewis/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_sniper/_v2-entry-point: 285: exec: /home/lewis/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_sniper/run: Permission denied /bin/sh\0-c\0/home/lewis/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/reaper SteamLaunch AppId=6060 – /home/lewis/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/steam-launch-wrapper – ‘/home/lewis/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_sniper’/_v2-entry-point --verb=waitforexitandrun – ‘/home/lewis/.steam/debian-installation/compatibilitytools.d/GE-Proton8-14’/proton waitforexitandrun ‘/home/lewis/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Star Wars Battlefront II Classic/GameData/BattlefrontII.exe’\0 chdir “/home/lewis/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Star Wars Battlefront II Classic/GameData” ERROR: ld.so: object ‘/home/lewis/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so’ from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object ‘/home/lewis/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so’ from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object ‘/home/lewis/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so’ from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object ‘/home/lewis/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so’ from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object ‘/home/lewis/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so’ from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. /home/lewis/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_sniper/_v2-entry-point: 285: exec: /home/lewis/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_sniper/run: Permission denied Uploaded AppInterfaceStats to Steam

Hadn’t thought of doing it that way, looks like a permissions error (which makes little sense to me tbh