Written by EarthOnlineLab
Table of Contents:
1. Screenshots
2. Installing on Windows Pc
3. Installing on Linux
4. System Requirements
5. Game features
6. Reviews
This guide describes how to use Steam Proton to play and run Windows games on your Linux computer. Some games may not work or may break because Steam Proton is still at a very early stage.
1. Activating Steam Proton for Linux:
Proton is integrated into the Steam Client with "Steam Play." To activate proton, go into your steam client and click on Steam in the upper right corner. Then click on settings to open a new window. From here, click on the Steam Play button at the bottom of the panel. Click "Enable Steam Play for Supported Titles."
Alternatively: Go to Steam > Settings > Steam Play and turn on the "Enable Steam Play for Supported Titles" option.
Valve has tested and fixed some Steam titles and you will now be able to play most of them. However, if you want to go further and play titles that even Valve hasn't tested, toggle the "Enable Steam Play for all titles" option.
2. Choose a version
You should use the Steam Proton version recommended by Steam: 3.7-8. This is the most stable version of Steam Proton at the moment.
3. Restart your Steam
After you have successfully activated Steam Proton, click "OK" and Steam will ask you to restart it for the changes to take effect. Restart it. Your computer will now play all of steam's whitelisted games seamlessly.
4. Launch Stardew Valley on Linux:
Before you can use Steam Proton, you must first download the Stardew Valley Windows game from Steam. When you download Stardew Valley for the first time, you will notice that the download size is slightly larger than the size of the game.
This happens because Steam will download your chosen Steam Proton version with this game as well. After the download is complete, simply click the "Play" button.
Maggots is a pixel desktop ecosystem game that monitors CPU, GPU, memory, and temperature. Your computer’s state affects the maggots’ speed, breeding, death, and mutations. The higher the load and heat, the more dangerous the infestation becomes.

Maggot is a tiny pixel-art game that lives on your desktop.
When launched, it opens a small window containing a randomly shaped piece of rotten meat. Flies arrive, lay eggs, and the maggots begin to crawl, breed, die, gather, and slowly form a strange little ecosystem on your screen.
It is not a traditional large-scale game. It is a quiet, unsettling desktop creature that sits in the corner of your monitor and keeps growing while you work, wait, or watch.
Maggot reads basic system status and uses it to affect the behavior of the infestation.
High CPU or GPU load may make the maggots more restless.
High memory pressure may cause parts of the ecosystem to collapse.
When temperature data is available, heat may kill or discolor the maggots.
When your system is stable, they continue to spread and reproduce.
Each time you launch the game, the meat is generated in a different shape. The maggots crawl across the new surface, gather in clusters, and turn every session into a fresh desktop infestation.
Maggot runs in a small draggable window that can sit anywhere on your screen. It stays above your desktop and appears in the taskbar, so you can easily return to it or close it at any time.
Pixel-art desktop maggot simulation
Randomly generated meat shapes
Maggot behavior affected by your PC status
Flies, eggs, breeding, death, and spreading infestation
Small window designed to sit in the corner of your desktop
No complex menus: launch it and watch it live