your blueprint
The Gamer
Windows was just a launcher with ads. You're replacing a launcher.
- base
- Bazzite: SteamOS energy, desktop body
- desktop
- KDE Plasma
- gaming
- Steam + Proton + Gamescope. This is why you are here
- escape plan
- a small Windows partition for the anticheat holdouts: an airlock, not a home
- terminal
- once a year, to paste one Proton flag
- bonus
- the controller works before you finish sitting down
second opinion · CachyOS, if you want to turn the performance knobs yourself.
What will still annoy you: That one kernel-anticheat title. Blame its publisher, not the penguin.
your setup prompt
Paste this into the LLM of your choice. It contains your hardware, your skill level and your blueprint. The AI walks you through the switch, one step at a time, and debugs with you when something breaks.
This is the generic The Gamer blueprint. Take the quiz to personalize it with your hardware, your Windows anchors, your terminal comfort, and to get a copy-paste setup prompt that makes an AI install it with you.