I have a desktop and a steam deck. I would like to setup some old games I have on disc on the desktop. Then compress them and decompress on my Steam Deck without doing the full install again. I understand that with wine/proton prefixes they should be installed to a “fake c:/ windows hierarchy” can I just compress that and copy to a different Linux machine? Does it save which proton version was used? If I use something like Lutris or bottles can I import into them?
Lot of great answers. Must save post for Linux newbies. If you play native linix games their saves will most probably in /.local/share/ or /.config. If you use repacks like jc141 they have their own prefix in /games/jc141/.