Is there any side effect of adding it to steam as a non steam game?
For example on the windows side would I now need to do the same? I am going to be adding (or plan to add) guild wars 2 to steam as a non steam game in Linux. Will i have to do the same in windows? Are there any other down sides that I should be aware of?
I’ll be running guild wars 2 through proton under steam.
It’s a local only change specific to that install of steam, not your account. It essentially just lets you use steam services on non steam executables. It doesn’t even check the executable. You can be online with Microsoft word through steam if you want. You can run pirated windows games through proton via steam and I can guarantee you steam does not give one iota of a fuck.