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[–] Biskii@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 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

[–] Karkitoo@lemmy.ml 31 points 3 days ago

You can find a procedure using Lutris here

Worked great for me on a fitgirl repack.

[–] CHKMRK@programming.dev 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Never really had a problem with either FitGirl or DODI repacks in Lutris

[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

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!

[–] Evoliddaw@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

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

[–] far_university190@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

If lutris make problem, launch with lutris -d in terminal for debug message.

To test if system broken, try install linux native game (for example tuxkart). If that no work, maybe system has problem. If does work, finally accomplished one thing :)

If more problem, !linux_gaming@lemmy.ml or !linux_gaming@lemmy.world maybe helpful

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just download jc141, they have both doom big collection and rdr2

[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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?

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] Takahe 26 points 3 days ago

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

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Run the installer in Proton, then point the steam shortcut to the installed executable. No tools needed except steam

[–] J4g2F@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

I mostly do the same but with heroic launcher.

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

Jc141 is nice if you are using a up to date distro.

[–] radau@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 days ago

Install them with Bottles or Lutris

[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] ancoraunamoka@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 5 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] absurdity_of_it_all@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Look up LinuxRulez. They make repacks for linux that have script installers. Older stuff might not be seeded though

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 11 points 3 days ago

!linuxcracksupport@lemmy.world

Not sure if this C is about the same thing, but there it is. Linux crack.

[–] Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I install them on my Windows Desktop, copy the files, and run them with Proton

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That works 99% of the time. I've run across a couple that refuse to extract, so I had to run them in a VM and copy the files over.

using proton for the installer as well worked wonders for me

[–] Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 1 points 2 days ago

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

[–] heehaw@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] jlow@beehaw.org 1 points 2 days ago

Found this very video super helpful a few weeks ago!