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Ubuntu 22.04. Crossover trial. Installed steam. That went fine. Logged into steam and tried to install a game. Steam complains not enough space. Oof. My bad. Didn't pay attention to where you were putting the files. Now I enter hell.

Delete the bottle for steam. Change the crossover preferences to use a partition that has tons of space. Try to reinstall steam. Crossover now seems stuck in some kind of hell where it thinks the bottle exists and won't reinstall it (cancel, ignore, retry...not great options all fail to do anything). Uninstalled crossover on Ubuntu and reinstalled it, picked back up old config. facepalm. I don't have anything serious in this so I just need a proper reset button and recommend updating either the steam bottle or the general crossover startup to say hey buddy, your current partition has $FREE_SPACE_AMOUNT and that may not be where you want to install sh-tuff.

in case someone else hits this, I think my issue is because the partition I'm trying to write to with all the space is ntfs. I just switched it back to local and it's fine installing steam again. I'll get another drive and format it something more ubuntu friendly and try again.

Hi Gerald,

No wonder you got problems. Steam is meant to run direct with “Wine” [stable version] and “Winetricks”. Winetricks is for fine-tuning. The current stable version of Wine is 9.

Go to Wine's webpage and select the one you need for your OS. They show several options, depending on the Linux OS you run (e.g. Ubuntu or Fedora and others). Follow their installation, install Winetricks [if needed], install Steam, and you are good to go.
One important thing: don't use the Flatpak version of Steam, else you may encounter some issues. Use your terminal instead.

The weblink reference for the Steam installation is as follows:
[https://www.]windowscentral.com/how-install-proton-steam-play-linux

I installed Steam and Proton (Valve) many months ago on my wife's PC, and she runs everything from Halo, to Path of Exile, etc. this way. Check it out, and if the webpage has been moved, I can send you a detailed [step by step] PDF to get everything running. I preserved the information this way. Steam and Valve as a team make it possible to run games smooth on Linux. If a game, in your steam library, requires an additional login for, let's say Battle.net, then this get created as well. Gamers have no reason anymore to keep Windows just because they want to run games. :)

Hans