ProtonUp-Qt v2.9.1 released for easy compatibility tool installs on Linux / Steam Deck

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/10462005

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/10462000

ProtonUp-Qt is an essential tool to help you install and manage GE-Proton, Luxtorpeda, Wine-GE and more for Steam, Heroic and Lutris for Linux desktop and Steam Deck.

But why would you need it? Well, sometimes Valve’s official Proton doesn’t work well with a game, so you need GE-Proton. If you want to easily play third-party upgraded game engines for some classic Steam games like OpenMW for Morrowind or OpenXcom for X-COM and so on (see my previous article) you can use Luxtorpeda and so on.

Version 2.9.1 was just released and here’s what’s new:

<span style="color:#323232;">    Added a Shortcut Editor for Steam.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Dxvk-Async: Use Ph42oN's releases instead of Sporif's.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    NorthstarProton: Use the R2NorthstarTools repo instead of the cyrv6737 repo.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Wine-GE: Match extract folder name (see PR #296 for details).
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Allow configuring GitHub/GitLab access tokens in the ProtonUp-Qt configuration file (see #161 (comment)).
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Various i18n, UI and UX enhancements. 
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How to install ProtonUp-Qt?

It’s available on Flathub or using your favourite app store (like Discover on KDE Plasma / Steam Deck Destop Mode). Alternatively download the AppImage:

<span style="color:#323232;">Download the ProtonUp-Qt AppImage.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Mark the AppImage as executable (either using your file manager or using the Terminal: chmod +x ProtonUp-Qt*.AppImage).
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Double-click the AppImage to run ProtonUp-Qt.
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