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?
What about graphics drivers? What if the desktop has an Nvidia GPU and the steam deck is AMD. Would that even matter?
No, you can copy wine prefixes around all you want. You may have to adjust the graphics settings in the games though.