I recently installed ME:LE on Linux, directly via the EA app (got that game for free years ago), and the game runs flawlessly so far, so I believe you'll be fine running it via Steam. FWIW I'm also running AMD hw only, albeit on Fedora.
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I've played all three games. Arch on PC, Lutris, some GE-Proton 9 version. If the camera acts up in ME2, try Gamescope with relative mouse.
EA App didn't come up. If it causes issues, try an alternatively sourced copy.
EA App was the only issue I faced, otherwise all three games ran great via Proton. Tried using old Origin rollbacks for offline play, but it would break after a session or two. Recommend playing with an online connection if using a copy that requires the EA App.
It runs great on Steam Deck and, according to what I read, you just have a manipulation to do if you want to play offline. Although it wasn’t annoying enough for me to do it as I could just played using my phonés hotspot when not at home.
You should definitely play it if you get it for cheap.
Proton DB is great for such questions.
ME:LE runs great on Steam Deck, I had no issues for the bit I played. YMMV of course but I think you'll be fine.
I played it last year and as far as I remember it was fine. Check ProtonDB for recent reviews though.
Works well in my testing. The biggest barrier is their stupid launcher, which may occasionally break on Linux.
I played it, the game worked perfectly. However, EA launcher did not. It would just die immediately 9 ot of 10 times. There's also another pitfall unrelated to linux: it doesn't use steam cloud for saves.
Played it through on AMD/Manjaro machine throughout last spring. A few crashes through the whole trilogy and that's it. Can't really complain .
It just works on my system, Arch with nvidia. Granted I've only tried to load into the first one, but it justworks™️.
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