Docs on preferred install method for steam deck?

[jgarvin]

The README covers many installation methods, but it's not clear which is the default/preferred way for a Steam Deck user. For example it says if you're running the flat version of Steam do X,Y,Z but I have no idea if that's true for the factory install of the deck. protontricks appears in the Discover app, but I assume that installs a flatpak, and I found an old reddit thread saying that doesn't put it in PATH, so I'm left unsure what the most official/supported way of doing things is. Any clarity would be appreciated.

[Matoking]

I've updated the README to clarify this.

In short, Flatpak is the recommended option for Steam Deck. While you should be able to unlock the filesystem and then install Protontricks using either a community AUR package or pipx, those installations would be wiped by an OS update due to how SteamOS 3's A/B partitioning works, on top of requiring more manual effort.

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You may not need to add Protontricks to PATH. Adding an application to PATH is usually done to make it easier to run it on the command-line.

Instead, you can use the instructions under the Flatpak section to make it possible to use the protontricks alias. This is often useful if you want to run a command listed on ProtonDB, for example. Without the alias, you'd have to run

flatpak run com.github.Matoking.protontricks 1234 foo bar

instead of

protontricks 1234 foo bar

which is a bit more cumbersome and harder to remember. With the alias, you can just copy a command and run it directly as-is.

[jgarvin]

Thanks,🙏