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    5 days ago

    I’m using my last month of Game Pass before switching to Linux. I just want to thank everybody here and Lemmy wide for being so friendly and helpful about all things Linux. You guys have taken out all the stress and worry from the transition

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    I’ve installed a few through Litrus and they have just worked. This was on SteamDeck and Ubuntu desktop

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      This may not be the right place for a superficial rant, but: I never figured Lutris out. Installed it a couple of times in the past years and rage-deleted it after a week of fiddeling because NOTHING WORKED. Not GZDoom, no emulator, no windows game let alone the RDR2 repack. I don’t think I’m that dumb, but seriously, I need help. I love the idea of a gaming platform on Linux, but the time I already sank into this piece of software without accomplishing anything is depressing!

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        I feel this so hard. I managed to get Bottles to run most things but the few I struggled with I’m always told others got it to run with Lutris. Okay but how? Because everything I’ve tried with Lutris failed.

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        I also never figured out lutris. I gave up one day with rage and discovered bottles. Never looked back after that.

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          So here I go again, searching the web to find out what jc141 is. I go to Reddit, huge wall of text that says stuff like “Peazip is not recommended to extract zpaq”. So I go to GitHub, it links to GitLab, which tells me about Arch: stable, Distrobox, Debian: unstable. 10 minutes have passed and I still don’t know what jc141 is. This gives me PTSD, it’s Linux at it’s worst.

          • Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip
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            Well it’s piracy. It’s supposed be like that. I can help you, just dm or reply here. Their gitlab has all necessary links to setup, torrent website link, rss if you need it, etc. I am free now for a few hours so feel free to ask.

            Emulation in general requires a bit of learning an tinkering, it’s just how it is, rom emulator users, ps2, 3,gameboy etc they have it way worse than us. Now it’s just click and play in linux in most titles.

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            It kind of just seems like you aren’t very good at determining what’s important to read/click and what’s not.

            Or maybe you’re just bad at doing searches?

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    I personally use bottles via flatpak and flatseal to make the games not connect to the internet when it’s not needed just in case.

    If you want native linux games, there are sites for that.

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        There’s torrminator for once, it has a section for linux cracks specifically. There’s also a large collection on the internet archive of native linux games that you’d have to find for yourself (to keep in line with the rules), but it shouldn’t be too difficult.

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    Install the full Visual Studio runtime and try some different settings with winecfg. People recommend Lutris but for me it never made a difference

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      Can I ask: How? What do you do to install that, and don’t you mean c++ runtime? Also I’ve never tinkered with winecfg, I fear that I might break things. What are some settings that are worth looking at?

      I’m asking caz I’m going crazy trying to play games on linux, if I buy them on steam it should just reportedly work, but non-steam games or cracked ones, I either have a very hard time starting, or it works, but just barely.

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        On winecfg you can try the checks on the Graphics tab, it shouldn’t break anything. Also, try to change the Windows version. Sometimes either XP or 7 work better. You’re right about it being c++, not sure which one I installed, maybe this one: https://github.com/abbodi1406/vcredist