I believe that might be for games you access via the website. My situation is more for when you have the whole game downloaded offline and want to set it up.

Thanks! So I would just set up Wine according to this, configure the prefixes and then run the game?

On another note, It just hit me that Proton was Valve's version of wine (from my understanding). I'll definitely give this a shot. Thanks moonpie!

Thanks for sharing. I do something similar with the --delete option on an external drive in case I screw something up.

I would say the following:

• Encrypt with a strong password 3+ word (your password manager should help you with this) for FDE
• for admin account (root), if there is a way to disable it in the setup configuration menu, disable it. Its recommended to use sudo when you need elevated perms rather than su root.
• backup all your files to an external drive, you can use rsync,rclone sync, or other items to do this. FreefileSync as well.
• before you switch over, run a flatpak list --columns=application to output all the flatpaks you have installed. This way you dont have to try to remember what you had installed
• Gnome software center is a bit slow and laggy, at least my experience on Pop! and Debian. I would recommend just using cli for apt installs and/or dpkg installs.

For the flatpak output, i would recommend the following script to help download all automatically:

flatpak_packages=(
	com.calibre_ebook.calibre
        all flatpaks listed here
)

flatpak_install(){
	for i in "${flatpak_packages[@]}"
	do
		echo "Installing $i"
		flatpak install --user flathub "$i" -y
	done
}

This will go through each flatpak and install it for you, saying yes to all so you don't have to do anything. Don't forget to run:

sudo apt install flatpak -y
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists --user flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

That's my brain dump at the moment lol. Lmk if you have any questions.

Thanks! good to know. I'll keep that in mind.

I wasn't aware of the full impact of -z. Thanks for clarifying that for me (thanks to @hades@feddit.uk as well!). I'll definitely keep an eye on the speed with -z vs without it when I do my next dry run.

Thanks for sharing! glad to see the --delete item being the key.