Steam said it was running

Probably updating the client in the background, for some reason this is the default updating behavior on Linux unlike the visible progress bar on Windows

You could ask your employer for a license I guess

Btw Rider is now free for non commercial use

If you’re not planning to run GUI

Corporate distros and all

The Linux guys obv

Or use VCS like a normal dev

Is anywhere really?

The registery is much easier to break, much harder to debug and much harder to fix, UNIX config is more human-friendly, I’ll never mess with the registery again

Not even close, Proton is a translation layer from Win32 API to whatever works similar for Linux, SDL just gives a higher level API of lower level stuff, like instead of using Xorg/Wayland directly, you get a nicer cross platform API that does the job well