[russnes]

No just directly in Steam. You can just add a non steam game to your library and select the .exe file you want, and steam will create a c drive environment for each non steam game you add.

In some cases you might have to change which exe file it runs, if you initially run a setup.exe which creates the real exe file you'd want to launch inside the c drive environment folder

[112233]

Wait, can I run non-games like that, too? Launch all kinds of windowed GUI programms from Steam?

[nemomarx]

Yeah, why not? Steam has non games on it by default - mostly art programs and utilities for whatever reason. When you're adding a non steam game to be run through steam it's just a wrapper and shortcut to it.

Very handy on the steam deck for some programs

[jack_pp]

So you could run battle.net inside Steam? That would be fun, I've had issues with battle.net on wine / lutris

[d3Xt3r]

Yes, Battle.net runs flawlessly in Steam, have zero issues playing D2R and D4 this way. In fact D4 ran flawlessly on Linux on Day 1, which came as a bit of a surprise to me.

[graynk]

Lutris doesn't have to mean Wine. It can launch apps via Proton too (and so can Heroic). I think it uses https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher behind the scenes, not sure, but so far I haven't run into any issues with this approach.

[safety1st]

This is exactly what I do, works great. I may have had to try one or two different recent versions of Proton via the drop-down, but it's way less hassle than when I used Lutris.

[saghm]

I played WoW for several years this way without much issue. The only tweaking I ended up doing manually was to try to figure it out how to get the game to let me enable ray tracing, which I did get working but ended to being too much of a performance hit for my to leave on most of the time anyhow.

[busfahrer]

This is what I do, it feels weird, but works perfectly and is the least effort solution