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=== GE-Proton (GloriousEggroll) ===

{{note|By default, Steam on NixOS won't see any manually-installed [https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom Proton-GE] versions. In order for Steam to be able to find these, you need to have the environment variable <code>STEAM_EXTRA_COMPAT_TOOLS_PATHS</code> set in your login session~~.}}~~

{{note|By default, Steam on NixOS won't see any manually-installed [https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom Proton-GE] versions. In order for Steam to be able to find these, you need to have the environment variable <code>STEAM_EXTRA_COMPAT_TOOLS_PATHS</code> set in your login session, for example:

~~Here is an~~ example <code>configuration.nix</code> excerpt that would provide that, using the (mostly) standard location (this one happens to also provide environment variables that help things conform to the [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory XDG Base Directory Specification]):

environment.~~sessionVariables = rec {~~

environment.variables.STEAM_EXTRA_COMPAT_TOOLS_PATHS = "~/.steam/root/compatibilitytools.d";

~~XDG_CACHE_HOME = "\${HOME}/~~.~~cache";~~

~~XDG_CONFIG_HOME = "\${HOME}/.config";~~

~~XDG_BIN_HOME = "\${HOME}/.local/bin";~~

~~XDG_DATA_HOME = "\${HOME}/.local/share";~~

~~# Steam needs this to find Proton-GE~~

STEAM_EXTRA_COMPAT_TOOLS_PATHS = "~~\${HOME}~~/.steam/root/compatibilitytools.d";

~~# note: this doesn't replace PATH, it just adds this to it~~

~~PATH = [~~

~~"\${XDG_BIN_HOME}"~~

];

};

</syntaxhighlight>

}}

{{note|As of 8/2022, the [https://search.nixos.org/packages?query=protonup protonup] auto-updater in nixpkgs is currently broken due to a naming convention change; see discussion [https://github.com/AUNaseef/protonup/issues/25 here] which suggests using a fixed fork (which is not yet part of nixpkgs) until it is patched or a PR is accepted. (Or you can simply just continue to manually install new versions.)}}

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 === GE-Proton (GloriousEggroll) ===
-{{note|By default, Steam on NixOS won't see any manually-installed [https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom Proton-GE] versions. In order for Steam to be able to find these, you need to have the environment variable <code>STEAM_EXTRA_COMPAT_TOOLS_PATHS</code> set in your login session.}}
+{{note|By default, Steam on NixOS won't see any manually-installed [https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom Proton-GE] versions. In order for Steam to be able to find these, you need to have the environment variable <code>STEAM_EXTRA_COMPAT_TOOLS_PATHS</code> set in your login session, for example:
-Here is an example <code>configuration.nix</code> excerpt that would provide that, using the (mostly) standard location (this one happens to also provide environment variables that help things conform to the [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory XDG Base Directory Specification]):
 <syntaxhighlight lang=nix>
-    environment.sessionVariables = rec {
+environment.variables.STEAM_EXTRA_COMPAT_TOOLS_PATHS = "~/.steam/root/compatibilitytools.d";
-      XDG_CACHE_HOME  = "\${HOME}/.cache";
-      XDG_CONFIG_HOME = "\${HOME}/.config";
-      XDG_BIN_HOME    = "\${HOME}/.local/bin";
-      XDG_DATA_HOME   = "\${HOME}/.local/share";
-      # Steam needs this to find Proton-GE
-      STEAM_EXTRA_COMPAT_TOOLS_PATHS = "\${HOME}/.steam/root/compatibilitytools.d";
-      # note: this doesn't replace PATH, it just adds this to it
-      PATH = [
-        "\${XDG_BIN_HOME}"
-      ];
-    };
 </syntaxhighlight>
+}}
 {{note|As of 8/2022, the [https://search.nixos.org/packages?query&#61;protonup protonup] auto-updater in nixpkgs is currently broken due to a naming convention change; see discussion [https://github.com/AUNaseef/protonup/issues/25 here] which suggests using a fixed fork (which is not yet part of nixpkgs) until it is patched or a PR is accepted. (Or you can simply just continue to manually install new versions.)}}