Naming things is hard, and text on computers is fraught with peril. Numbers are safe.
What if you have a game named Русская локализация? Would that help you? Or \ or COM1, would that even work on Windows (nope)? Or two games named Farming Simulator? How do you disambiguate?
The number is the store ID, which is not unique to Proton and has been used by Steam forever.
Naming things is hard, and text on computers is fraught with peril. Numbers are safe.
What if you have a game named
Русская локализация
? Would that help you? Or\
orCOM1
, would that even work on Windows (nope)? Or two games namedFarming Simulator
? How do you disambiguate?The number is the store ID, which is not unique to Proton and has been used by Steam forever.