The upstream Proton versions have had it in place for awhile, but they need to make and deploy client changes for the defaults. From the change log, I’m guessing they’ve been prepping initial support for the new hardware coming out, but no announcements yet.

All the catches

I’m saying I don’t think there is in this case. I’m not sure what the use case would be simply because you could use any other tools for this specific job.

It’s like asking for an “offline browser” in a sense.

Just use NocoDB or a spreadsheet or something.

Go to “game options” for the specific game, then look under “Wine Prefix”. That should let you point to a specific prefix.

WineGE is old and dead. Don’t use that. Some other things:

• You sure the game is set to Fullscreen and not “Borderless Window”? There’s a big difference.
• Try to ALT+Tab once in and out of the window to see if it snaps back into focus.
• Try Wine 10+ instead. Perhaps a regression was fixed
• Try Proton instead of Wine if using Lutris. Works fine on Deck.

Offline first for online content? Whoa buddy, where’s this Moon you’re asking for?

Seriously though, you need to be realistic when you’re asserting your wants for a service or tool. Everyone builds tools to sync bookmarks and save lists now, because that’s a feature that users want. It’s going to be difficult to find something that is “offline”.

Try using a memo app maybe? Lots of password managers have the ability to save links, and would technically be “outside” the browser if you want them to be.

Yup. Same with any other as well. If you don’t want to use Steam, I think a lot of people find Lutris and Heroic simple.and functional for all levels of user, and they also include the ability to run Steam Runtimes and Proton versions pretty simply too.

All of these launchers run Wine under the hood, and are a good abstraction on top of that entire stack. Just makes it super simple to manage.

TLDR: use a prefix manager instead of plain Wine

You can install them anywhere, but if you’re using plain Wine, I’d suggest you instead go with something that will manage these locations for you.

Each Wine setup has what is called a “prefix”, which in the simplest sense is just a folder that is setup like a Windows C:\ drive, and includes all the shared libraries and bits needed to run the game. When a program run is launched, it is locked into this prefix, so when it goes looking for files as it would on Windows, it’s going to find a familiar folder structure, including installed dependencies like MS VC libraries and DirectX stuff.

Now…when you as a user are just using Wine directly, you’d generally be using the SAME prefix to install multiple games, which is hard to manage, and just clunky.

Prefix managers like Proton, Lutris, Bottles and even Heroic will make a new prefix for EACH program, making things like troubleshooting, switching runtimes, or invoking custom configs per program a LOT easier.

Bud…been doing this for 20 years. Don’t need your explainer.

The fact you didn’t mention the barest of minimums in your comment if where the issue lies. You’re just adding stacks on stacks of things by using any other network mount and having the user manage an encrypted image inside that mount. Also absent from what you were trying to explain. I’d work on that.

Point being, for a multi-user/tenant utility like OP is asking for, there are better tools for the job, of which I just named a couple standalone options. If they are running TrueNAS, Synology, or QNAP, or even NextCloud, there are already built-ins for this purpose, and apps to match.

If not, any of the other solutions I mentioned are much better suited for the use-case, especially, and if not only because, OP specifically said they DID NOT want exactly what you’re describing.

OP said they DON’T want LUKS. I’m also missing how the admin of the server (OP) wouldn’t have or store the keys unless and have these mounts available at all times?

You seem to be suggesting there is some way for a remote user to mount a LUKS image on its host, which is not a thing unless you’re first SSH’ing to said host and mounting it and making it available for export mount elsewhere, which is clearly not what OP is asking for here when they just want space for people to store media. Maybe I’m misunderstanding.

There Hook, Filen, Yeetfile, BatchIT…tons of these self-hosted stacks that do this with auth and user management built in. That’s what OP is asking about.

Those aren’t end-to-end encrypted from the user, and would need to be mounted on the local system with a key that is unique to each user. Not exactly user-friendly if supporting multiple users.

There are plenty of other solutions meant for the purpose OP is asking about.

There’s dozens out there, but the bigger question is: what’s your current hosting setup? What NAS are you running?

It would be simpler to just run something that your NAS platform supports already or has a mobile app for. Pretty much every solution you’ll find with e2e encryption is going to have its own client.

It’s a Flatpak. Did you give it proper permissions to use this hardware?

How’s everything else getting to your storage from your main container? They don’t share.

It depends on what kind of server this is. If it’s cloud-y, then you can just mount another volume and move everything there.

If it’s a amatatic VPS where you can’t uograde or change it at all, you’re not going to find a performance solution without using a CDN or manually mapping to something S3 compatible.

“Does a Shit Sandwich taste better than a Turd Burger?”

Nobody cares.

What are the apps, exactly?

Fuck this loser. We have enough issues to deal with on a daily basis. We don’t need to subsidize your fear of having wasted ungodly amounts of money and becoming irrelevant.

That’s a YOU problem, fool.

If they require root at start, it’s more than likely they need to access devices or sockets on the host on startup. If it’s then transitioning to another uid/gid for the actual runtime in the container - which looks to be happening - its not quite rootLESS because it obviously requires root.

I’m unfamiliar with the linuxserver images, so don’t understand the need for root here.

Windows IS a horrible OS at the technical level. It seems okay-ish from a non-technical perspective. Everything just below the surface is absolute junk. There’s a reason it’s the most exploited piece of software in history.