Let's talk about Linux

So you can actually install accessibility mods in that proton thing?

Yes, I was even able to make the SMAPI installer run. I had to provide a custom game location, but after that SMAPI installed all the files and stuff it needed and Stardew worked after making sure stardew modding api.exe was the target of the launch script. I'm not sure about mods that install to your documents folder though, I've seen some mods do that, but the standard put this DLL in the game folder and add x y z to your launch options works just fine. So does thunderstore actually, there's a Linux version of that called r2-modman.

test from eltemn on linux ubuntu26.04

Oh nice, they got a Linux build out finally! Lol I remember the days when I used to run it through wine with very mixed results.

i used the debloated 11 vm and it was slo but got the job dun

Did you use virt manager by any chance? Virt manager's defaults for CPU core allocation is a load of crap and you can get a noticeable performance increase by changing the topology settings.