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We've all got our tastes, haha.
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In particular, changing your locale is really easy in Lutris. Well, after I submitted these patches for searching for installed locales and selecting a locale on installation, which was only possible because Lutris is free software. Any problems with the Steam client are only fixable by Valve.
It's worth mentioning that Proton can have worse compatibility for games not built with the Steam Runtime in mind, as the developer for Proton-GE declares in no uncertain terms here. He recommends using Wine-GE, which retains all the improvements from Proton without the incompatible parts.
But if you managed to get the games working, that's great! I've found that the biggest thing to watch out for with Japanese visual novels is DRM. We've got an incomplete list of what DRM works and what doesn't here. Unfortunately, there's not much we can do about that except not buy the games...
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Honestly, I'm not religious about free software. I just prefer being able to fix problems when they arise, as I did with Lutris. The Steam client was broken in a major way for months before Valve finally fixed it. Thank you for offering another option for managing Wine (sorry for being a bit abrasive before), but I'm happy with Lutris, really! I use Steam for Steam games, but I prefer having more control over Wine using Lutris for non-Steam games.
But Steam Client, Lutris, Heroic Launcher, Bottles, or just plain invoking Wine from the command-line, none of those fix my biggest problem with visual novels on GNU/Linux, which is the DRM it's encumbered with.
If you can get a game from DMM working on Steam, let me know! I will happily use whatever method works to play those games on GNU/Linux. Hell, I might have even paid for Cedega if it was still around.