Simply put, proton is great for playing single player games or even ones I don’t mind playing offline like dark souls. However I recently purchased rust and am limited to servers with each disabled. I think a good work around is playing in a vm with my Nvidia GPU run through the onboard GPU. Many of the guides I have tried have yielded no results, idk if I’m doing something wrong. Help would be appreciated, I’m using Ubuntu with a 1080ti and a Ryzen CPU.
Since you are using a debian forked distro i would follow this guide. Watch it entirely first take notes - then rewatch while following the steps.
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=BNLnTCqUMyY&t=1243&local=true