As a special treat to me personally, Valve has released a new version of its Proton compatibility layer—the special sauce that lets Windows games run on Linux platforms like the Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and your desktop if you're cool. Proton 11 is out now, freshly rebased on Wine 11, and accessible to Linux users via the compatibility tab in your Steam settings, or on a per-game basis via the compatibility tab in your games' individual Steam settings pages.
This is the Proton version that went into beta last April, bringing support for Deadly Premonition (a personal all-timer) to Linux among a raft of other fixes. Now it's out for real, with all manner of tweaks and patches and updates, the most important of which for me is "Fixed KDE window maximization support." I kept having issues with that on my desktop, which is hooked up to my TV.
