Has anyone tried WinBoat with mod loaders, or system monitors like FPSVR? (lemmy.ca)

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I've been hearing some good things about WinBoat, so I am wondering if anyone has tried to use it with game mod loaders. Like the windows version of Satisfactory Mod Manager (I know there is a linux one that works perfectly and exactly like the windows version but as this is a very popular game maybe someone did it this route) or, the one I am really interested in right now, Raft Mod Loader. Raft Mod Loader page suggests 1. Bottles and less recommended 2. straight wine. I would like to use a single solution for most of my windows carry overs, ie; steam is one stop for ~90% of my games flat and VR, lutris is one stop for 2 non steam games atm, but I am uncovering more as I go.

I also have 2 windows only apps for VR - FPSVR and Desktop+(this is free), obviously they will not want to port their apps to linux for such a small user base. Has anyone tried these in WinBoat?

EDIT: So, yeah. For my needs this is a 20lb sledge hammer putting in a finishing nail

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[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Bottles and lutris mostly serve the same purpose. heroic might be easier so you can use umu for having a more unified experience with wine and proton but I haven't gotten around to playing with that yet.

I've never used winboat but it seams like a lot of... winbloat...

I would personally just use protontricks to install any needed sotware to the games own prefix but I'm pretty sure lutris, bottles, and heroic can all do this while making a clickable launch button for it, while starting the mod loaders my way requires manual intervention every time.

If you haven't already, check out linux vr adventures: https://lvra.gitlab.io/ I don't know anything about psvr but it might work with monado. i have the facebook shit mask so I use wivrn.

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