Yes I’ve noticed that as well

Sure, but it wouldn’t have been worth the effort. Guarantee Valve has dumped a looooot of money into it’s development.

There are native Linux games

They exist. How many of them do you see on the front page of the Steam store? Almost never. Games that people actually play are very rarely Linux native. If they were, Proton never would have been created.

While I agree that proton on its own doesn’t make gaming on Linux a “first class experience”,

“First-class citizen” doesn’t refer to the quality of the experience

Is it true that if you don’t use it, you lose it?

A note: I have entirely automated background updates. I have no idea how often it checks, or how often it updates.

If it were a “first-class citizen” there would be native Linux games and not rampant and intentional anti-cheat exclusions.

“First-class citizen” doesn’t refer to the quality of the experience, but how it’s treated in society. At this point it’s mostly something that devs and publishers tolerate, and occasionally offer minor consideration on behalf of a single device.

This is one place where AI actually makes sense

I’m not understanding what you’re confused about here. What does any of that have to do with my comment? And why would they do that?

Sorry to hear that. I have a long backlog so I haven’t tested it yet.

Then why do people complain about this every single time the phrase is used? Can you provide an example of it being used in that way?

It’s never framed that way. I know because people complain about it literally every time it’s used in this context.

Define “touch”

Yeah that’s what I use as well

Heroic also works on Mac and Win.

Sign into your Epic account, set Heroic to automatically add games to Steam, then launch from Steam.

Oof

I don’t much care for them either but…it’s free. You should claim it because you don’t like them.

Hence it is not a reasonable solution.

No one’s hating on anything. If you actually read my comment I expressed precisely the opposite, while answering OPs question.

Why would you downvote this? 🤷

The problem is that you have some weird conception of what “review bombing” means. You seem to be under the misconception that it has something to do with somehow illegitimate reviews.

All that it means is massive amounts of negative reviews in a short time. It’s pretty self-explanatory, really.

Like call up someone in another building ‘hey plug the jet into tower X so I can remote in?’

The whole idea is you don’t need anyone local. You leave it plugged in 24/7 so that’s it’s accessible remotely, as needed.