AoE 2 HD On Linux using Steam Play/Proton

Hi all --

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As you may know, Valve released a new version of Steam Play that automatically wraps your games with Wine/Proton, meaning you can just click play on your Linux Steam Client and start your Windows-only titles on Linux.

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Steam Announcement:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/221410#announcements/detail/1696055855739350561
Forbes article on the release:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/08/22/valve-changes-everything-windows-exclusive-games-now-run-on-steam-for-linux/#1083bae9e3fa

Not all games are supported, but you can enable it to run even in unsupported games. This may or may not work, obviously.

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To play AoE2 on Linux all I had to do was this:

1 - Enable the Steam Beta Client: Go to Steam->Settings. In the account tab, click change in the Steam Beta Update and click on Steam Beta Update

2 - Enable Steam Play for all games: Go again to Settings and on the Steam Play Tab click "Enable Steam Play for all titles"

3 - Download/Install AoE.

4 - Rename "AoK.exe" to "Launcher.exe"

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I have only had time to test single-player and it worked great, I'll test multiplayer when I have some time.

I am curious if there are other users that have tried this and what are your experiences. I'm using Ubuntu 18.04, I wonder if other people using other distributions had similar experiences.

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Finally, if anyone has any advise on setting up "Voobly+Wololo Kingdoms" in this setup that would be greatly appreciated.