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Steam version of BG2 EE worked flawlessly for me. It's been discounted down to like 3€ a few times
I think you're probably using Proton, which is basically the same as running a Windows apps on WINE. I'd choose GOG over Steam due to philosophical reasons (DRM-free gaming). And also, because GOG has the Linux version. The only issue is packaging the setup dependency into multiple distros, which I'm trying to make it working on Nix for now.
Proton and Wine are largely the same thing. Proton just has DXVK built in as well as a bunch of Valve-made patches.
Valve had greatly accelerated Wine development. I still run many games off pure Wine with manually added DXVK.
That is interesting. I thought that both Proton and WINE are identical forks and a monolith of all the feature offered by a front-end app that uses them, just that one is maintained by Steam, and the other by an open-source community. The DXVK stuff you've shared is new information to me, because I thought that WINE included that by default.
Proton is just Valve's fork of Wine. It had a lot of game-specific patches, to make all the Steam games work better.
Wine isn't meant specifically for games - you can run most Windows applications in it. It's just translations of Windows syscalls to Linux equivalents, to put it simply.
Proton IS wine
What's gog?
GOG.com was formerly known as Good Old Games. It is a digital distribution platform for games and movies. It is a subsidiary of CD Projekt. Games on GOG are DRM-free.
Thanks!
The Steam version might be using the steam runtime, which would explain why you aren't having dependency issues.