I would say that the problem is a lot older, more fundamental and anchored on two issues:

• Somebody else got rid of the Nazis, not the German people, and all the subsequent learning from Nazism was the result of outside pressures and based on an outside way of thinking, rather than being the result of self-discovery and self-improvement.
• The “lessons” learned were structured in the way of thinking of the 1950s which was still very much normalized Racism, so instead of the lesson being the modern Humanist “This should never be allowed to happen to anybody”, it was instead the highly Race-specific formulation of “We (Germans) should never do this to Jews again”.

The result is that the mental architecture of seeing people as members or races and hence assumed to have a certain nature based purelly on their race (good, bad, trustworthy, untrustworthy, victims, aggressors, oppressors, oppressed and so on), that formed the foundation upon which Nazism was built, was never abandoned and instead only the list of “good” and “bad” races changed, which in the domain of Prejudice and Racism was but a tiny step away from Nazism.

If in the mind of most of a society, people’s worth and deserving of special treatment is determined by their race to such a point that, as we saw with the “unwavering support of the Jewish Nation” during them committing a Genocide, even extreme negative behaviour of people is acceptable if they are members of a race deemed “good”, then all the mental pathways to think and act exactly like that towards “our race” - the mindset of AfD - are in place and well travelled.

Nativist Racism in Germany is the harvest of a field well plowed and fertilized with Racist and Prejudiced practices (described as “positive” to make them sound like a good thing) for the last 6 or 7 decades. Worse, that well kept field was the very same were Nazism blossomed over a century ago.

Pretty much the whole political range from the extreme Right up to and including the Greens (but not the Left party) normalized racial discrimination with their whole “unwavering support of the Jewish nation” (i.e. unlimited support entirely because of their race) whilst they mass murdered civilians because of their ethnicity (a crime so foul that the list of dead Palestinian babies 1 year old or younger for the first 6 months of the Genocide is 17 pages long).

They not just normalized in Germany the mindset of discriminating on the basis of race, but once the Genocide started they went all the way to unwaveringly supporting a modern variant of Nazism giving as reason for that that those doing it represented “the Jewish People”.

It’s absolutely natural that the Far Right nationalists would think that “well, if even mass murdering Palestinian babies is fine if the murderers are Jews, then surely it’s equally fair that those who are Germans should be able to do whatever one wants to non-Germans” (or in other words “if it’s fine for them, then it’s fine for us too”)

There really isn’t that much of an Ethical and Moral distance between “those of a specific race can mass murder babies of the ethnicity they deem ‘human animals’” (which is what almost the entirety of the German political class defended) and “our specific race can treat other races any way they see fit” (which is the AfD’s position) - in fact I would even go as far as saying that “merely” being anti-Immigration is Ethically and Morally a less monstrous position to hold than supporting mass murder of innocent civilians because they’re from a different ethnicity than a race you favor.

I can log into my GOG account with Lutris and it will NOT auto-update my games but rather works as a pull-only manager, which I prefer since over 2 decades in Software Engineering have taught me that shit getting updated at the convenience of a 3rd party is a great way to randomly and for no good reason have stuff that works stop working. Even in Windows I refused to use GOG Galaxy for exactly that reason and kept downloading offline installers (and that’s also part of the reason I favored GOG over Steam). You could say it’s a professional quirk 😀

I’m definitely one of those people who swears by Lutris and even went to the trouble of figuring out how to run games from it automatically sandboxed and have mine configured to run them with Firejail set for, amongst other things, no network access (it looked into it because I wanted to make sure any pirated game wouldn’t hack my system, but it also works well to stop official versions of games from doing any funny business - mainly privacy invasive stuff - so I have it set up as default for all games).

I too was holding back from having Linux as my main by the lack of availability of games that would run on Linux - and I’ve been playing around with Linux and even using it professionally since the early 90s - so I’m very happy with how this transition from Windows to Linux turned out for me and, like you, almost all of the games that I know won’t work are games I don’t have interest in playing anyway (mainly because the Online Multiplayer experience for AAA games nowadays is horrible even when compared to the 2000s and early 2010s, worse compared to LAN gaming in the 90s).

Well, my Steam collection isn’t all that big (I mostly buy from GoG) plus I’ve only changed to Linux about 6 months ago, so out of the 6 Steam games I have tried so far in Linux, only for 1 (The Sims3, an EA game from 2009) has it failed to run from Steam whilst a pirated version ran perfectly fine with Lutris and Wine.

If I remember it correctly since the very beginning this game was problematic even in Windows because of its excessive DRM and if you look at ProtonDB, most recent experiences reported with the Sims 3 are either negative or problematic.

I’ve tweaked a lot of problematic games to get them to run in Linux (mainly GoG games with Wine and Lutris, though in addition to the Sims 3, one of the other 6 Steam games I’ve tried require tweaking in Steam, which for that one worked and I got it to run) plus I know enough about tweaking Wine to get pirated games to run in Lutris (Lutris doesn’t have install scripts for downloaded “releases” like that, so they often requires tracking in the logs the missing DLLs and figuring out what to install with Winetricks or even if the problem requires forcing use of the native DLL in WINEDLLOVERRIDES) so it’s not as if by now I’m devoid of experience at tweaking that stuff.

In summary, my total rate for problems running Steam games under Linux is 33.3%, half of which I could solve with tweaking and half I could not, though it’s a pretty small sample so the error margin is large.

For comparison sake, with Wine and Lutris out of maybe 20 games, looking at my notes - because I write the tweaks down for future reference - 5 required tweaking (so around 25%) and only for 1 of those (10% off the total) I failed to get it to run properly.

Compared to the last time I tried gaming on Linux (maybe a decade ago), it’s incredibly good.

In some cases my 0 minutes played are because I bought it in Steam but had to go get a pirate version to play it in Linux (via Lutris and Wine rather than Steam and Proton) since the Steam version didn’t work in Linux but the pirate one did (probably something to do with the game’s own DRM, which in the pirate version has been cracked)

Which, IMHO, is more sad than just buying a game because it’s cheap and never actually getting around to playing it.