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From this version of NixOS onwards, you should be able to play most games with Proton.

=== 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.}}

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 {

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.)}}

== See also ==

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Explaining_the_current_Steam_Package_build

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 From this version of NixOS onwards, you should be able to play most games with Proton.
+=== 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.}}
+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 {
+      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.)}}
 == See also ==
 https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Explaining_the_current_Steam_Package_build