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[-] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 9 points 1 day ago

Explanation of the last panel?

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago

I wish every game was like that AND the game saves were always in the directory.

I want to download, play, backup after I’m done without needing to manage all the save locations.

[-] katze@lemmy.4d2.org 6 points 1 day ago

That can easily accomplished by running each game in its own WINEPREFIX.

[-] notSys@lemmy.cafe 2 points 12 hours ago

Wait. This is genious! Why haven't I thought of it?

[-] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 39 points 1 day ago

Technically, when installing a fitgirl rip, it is doing an extraction only, just with some extra UI elements and other features like installing dependencies.

[-] RiQuY@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 day ago

With the added complexity that it can fail for reasons I don't comprehed. If it was just extracting that wouldn't fail under any circumstances.

[-] morto@piefed.social 12 points 1 day ago

With the added complexity that it can fail for reasons I don’t comprehed

The lovecraftian installer

[-] DdCno1@beehaw.org 7 points 1 day ago

The only times it has failed on me was because either the storage device or RAM were faulty. It's definitely worth it to check both for errors every once in a while, as financially devastating as it is to replace either.

[-] CyberTerry@leminal.space 1 points 1 day ago

It's your RAM bro

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

why does it require admin rights to run, then? right at startup, and if you try to run it with a tool that fakes admin rights, it will crash (unlike other installers it can successfully make run)

[-] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

They need admin privileges to write to directories such as C:/Program Files, if I had to guess - I didn't need privileges when installing Halo: Combatevolved Butworse on Linux

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

but I always installed them on my other drive where it did not need such privileges. it works on linux because here everything runs as admin (in the wine world, it's not admin in the linux world)

[-] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 day ago

It's not that Wine runs things as an administrator, Wine emulates the Windows virtual filesystem by creating and using a directory in your home (by default), which means you own the entire thing;

with Windows, if you have a separate drive and *you* create a folder in it, even if you call it "Program Files", it's going to let you access it freely because it's yours.
However, the existing Program Files folder in your OS drive (C: by default, idk if you can change its volume letter) is owned by... I have no idea, actually, but it's a system account, not yours.

The last paragraph may be inaccurate, I was much less tech literate when I was still daily-driving Windows.

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's not that Wine runs things as an administrator

yes, it is that

Wine emulates the Windows virtual filesystem by creating and using a directory in your home (by default), which means you own the entire thing;

I was always installing fitgirl games to my other drive, where I owned the entire thing. I know because I remember I set the ownership.

However, the existing Program Files folder in your OS drive (C: by default, idk if you can change its volume letter) is owned by... I have no idea, actually, but it's a system account, not yours.

The last paragraph may be inaccurate, I was much less

I have never installed fitgirl games there.

[-] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

I'll trust you on the Windows side of things, but you ought to explain how Wine is running things with admin privileges

[-] jdr@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Wine acts as if it has admin on the Windows side, but that's unrelated to admin on the Linux host, very likely wine is just running with user privileges there.

[-] katze@lemmy.4d2.org 4 points 1 day ago

You are misunderstanding him. Wine has not implemented any UAC dialogue like windows; when the application requests it, it just gets "elevated" as if the user had pressed that UAC button under windows; but Wine does this automatically, as there is no need for something like that.

As stated in comment 50, applications requiring unelevated privileges can be run directly, without the need for "runas" or any similar manual intervention.

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40613#c50

[-] AceSLS@ani.social 4 points 1 day ago

Lol, where is "download from steam, hit play"?

[-] tene@leminal.space 4 points 1 day ago

username checks out, keep up the good work 🏴‍☠️

[-] AceSLS@ani.social 3 points 21 hours ago

Will do, thank you :)

[-] ooli3@sopuli.xyz 50 points 1 day ago

it would have a few step more: go to work, work for 5 h, get your minimum wage 60$, enter you credit card info, pay steam

[-] AceSLS@ani.social 4 points 21 hours ago

Who said you have to pay? 🤣

[-] tene@leminal.space 5 points 1 day ago

unless you know who this guy is and what he is talking about: SLSsteam

[-] notSys@lemmy.cafe 1 points 12 hours ago

How to use SLS steam for piracy? It doesn't look like a piracy tool

[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 23 hours ago

All the other ones would need that too for buying the hardware you're playing on

[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

Hahahahhaha $12 minimum wage, you're a riot.

[-] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Can't tell if you're joking or not. US federal minimum is still $7.25 but places like California and Connecticut have higher minimums in the $16+

[-] ooli3@sopuli.xyz 1 points 23 hours ago

plus they are other country than US, each with different minimum wage. I ballparked it.

the point being: whatever you buy, you sacrificied a lot of time for it (some more than other, obviously)

[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago

My state voted for and passed a minimum wage raise, which would continue incrementally for the next few years, and paid sick time ballot initiative. The state legislature repealed the sick leave and removed the minimum wage increases from the future. Yay democracy. Cunts.

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

denuvo won't run on operating systems that don't try to fuck you over, and makes the game slower on windows

[-] jonathan@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago
[-] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago

I wouldn't pollute my Linux OS with that shit.

this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2026
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