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Re: Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux

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Post by somenameforme »

deaddodo wrote: post #67
crabbone wrote: post #53

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On one hand, this is also what I use, and it kind of works. On the other hand... Wine and NVidia seem to not like each other... at all. Every game will require tinkering with Wine and a bunch of things that are supposed to wortk with various NVidia drivers and video adapters. And there's non-zero chance that it simply won't work. Or won't work with your display manager / desktop manager / monitor connection etc. For…

My laptop is all AMD (AMD Ryzen 6800HS) and I think people have rose-colored glasses of the AMD situation. I certainly prefer it for many reasons: it's driver stack is open source, it has full DRI2 support, it works with Wayland, etc. That being said, it has plenty of it's own problems and I've run into many of them with Proton/Wine. I would dare say, more than my Nvidia laptop did (though, this was before Steam Deck…

It's not just on Linux though. My wife and I had literally identical setups with the one difference being the video card. I had an AMD card, she a NVidia. And the compatibility issues are real. For a specific example, Nvidia cards and Grim Dawn just don't (or didn't at least) get along, even on Windows - with about a zillion threads of such in the Steam forums for it, indicating it wasn't just e.g. a hardware failure type issue. And that wasn't the only game issues cropped up in. That's when we decided to replace her card with an AMD one, and we've had zero issues since.

Another fun thing (again, on Windows at least) is NVidia's drivers forcibly installing telemetry, even when disabled in the install settings. NVidia was king of cards for quite a number of years, but they're really not the company they once were anymore.

Re: Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux

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Post by smoldesu »

antman wrote: post #116

We are in a family crisis here, can any of the solutions run roblox after their botched anti cheat update?

I think so, but the solution may be convoluted. Waydroid users can spin up an Android container to run Roblox post-Wine ban: https://youtu.be/E0BLQCEU8ZI

Re: Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux

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Post by JeremyNT »

pitaj wrote: post #76
codingcarpenter wrote: post #50

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Honestly proton is really all you need at this point. I've completely switched over to Linux and have had absolutely zero problems. How Linux mint even found all of my drivers for me it took literally no effort. That being said you can always check proton db to see if your games work with it

One exception is online multiplayer, which you'll still need a true Windows for.

Another is peripheral support. I have a trackir which doesn't really work right in Linux on the games I'd like to use it. It also takes a lot more fiddling to get even supported devices (like my Logitech gaming wheel) working correctly.

And that's without even considering vr goggles...

Re: Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux

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Post by leipert »

Semi-related: Having no windows machine or console, I recently tried out one of those gaming streaming services to play Diablo IV and wow: 10 bucks/month to be able to play it without the need to tinker with anything or building a PC.

Getting 30ms latency is good enough for this casual gamer.

Re: Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux

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Post by Hamuko »

leipert wrote: post #124

Semi-related: Having no windows machine or console, I recently tried out one of those gaming streaming services to play Diablo IV and wow: 10 bucks/month to be able to play it without the need to tinker with anything or building a PC. Getting 30ms latency is good enough for this casual gamer.

I'm still astonished that I could have a better experience playing Cyberpunk 2077 on Stadia that's hosted in ??? than I could have playing Ghostwire: Tokyo that was hosted on another computer in my local network, connected to the same Gigabit switch. Stadia had both lower input latency and higher stream quality.

Re: Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux

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Post by Hamuko »

lockhouse wrote: post #42
mordae wrote: post #22

Just use Lutris. It can fetch various flavours of wine and manage your bottles. https://lutris.net/

That looks awesome! Is there anything like that for Mac?

There's a front-end for the new Game Porting Toolkit at least.

https://github.com/IsaacMarovitz/Whisky

Re: Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux

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Post by tannhaeuser »

posguy wrote: post #46
frfl wrote: post #40

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Is this sarcasm or a joke or a serious question? MS Teams is already cross platform Edit: Luckily I haven't had the displeasure of using MS Teams a couple of years, so I didn't know it was discontinued on Linux.

No, MS Teams for Linux launched in 2019 and unlaunched a few months ago. All we get is a flakey PWA now on Linux. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/... https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/end-o... Bing Chat is also crashing in Firefox on Linux when I go to use it, just the tab itself crashes :c Microsoft is coming full circle with their most recent embrace, extend, extingu…

Bummer! That sucks as a freelancer with customers frequently relying on MS out of laziness. OTOH, at this point it's just another nail in the coffin for the Linux desktop that ceased to be usable anyway, even for work supported by the few age-old apps it has. Sadly, I can't even say I'm surprised, with Linuxers busy for well over a decade now to dutifully and sheepishly bring their workloads to "the cloud" and Chrome exclusively, and occupied with meta (non-)problems (wayland, containers). Looking forward to projects on Windows notebooks using Docker Desktop on x86!
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