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This is not my experience at all, I recently had to go through this dance to get D4 working. The latest versions of those things in the arch repositories don't/didn't work. Needed to get some older specific version, so now you can't use your package manager (since you can't have multiple versions). Then you need to mess around with paths and configs so that the correct versions are used.

I very quickly gave up and just used Lutris, copied someones settings/versions from Reddit and it worked, but I wasn't too happy. I _really_ wanted to try Diablo4, so I put up with it, but normally my patience for such things is pretty low.

I am not averse to messing around with things, I've got a pretty good idea of how things work in Linux. I've written my own .so files to fix bugs in closed source software using LD_PRELOAD. I just don't want to deal with that when gaming.

There's more to Steam than just the pre-configured proton. Their controller support stuff is top notch and so is the stream link/stream stuff. Not using steam would definitely make my experience worse.