Every day people, no. Mainly Youtubers.

I have almost none of those issues. CachyOS on two desktops. One is AMD CPU/Nvidia GPU, the other is Intel CPU/AMD GPU. Both KDE. I only use Steam native so far. 8bitdo Pro 2 controllers /w USB Wi-Fi 2.4Ghz dongles.

Occasionally a game hangs, but only about often as I had it happen on Windows.

The main problem I’m having is broken video playback on Store pages with their updated wide media player. Turns hardware acceleration on/off doesn’t fix it.

From what I understand which isn’t much: Faugus gave me the impression it’s using that Debian based Steam runtime and makes it sound like Lutris, Bottles, etc don’t even if you’re using Proton. Does it matter? You tell me.

In practice I’ve not noticed any difference when I tested it out on a couple games to experiment. I don’t use Faugus because Gamescope doesn’t work yet according (last read a couple months ago) to their github page. If the old projects are dying then whatever. I’ll use Faugus Launcher when it’s actually ready.

I liked the GUI so far anyways so I won’t be upset if I have to switch.

The shark got me so good. Just… “om.”

Well they got me at least for a Steam Controller.

I was worried they downgraded the VR controllers but the webpage says “Capacitive finger tracking” so idk I guess they just found a way to get rid of the brittle plastic rings from Knuckles?

Should’ve announced a new flagship VR game along side this IMO.

Bookmarking softgpu that’s a great link, thanks.

For early Windows DirectX 1 - 6 there’s 86Box.

Windows is not fully compliant with the NTFS specs

What the fuck? Insane trivia to learn about now.

Thanks for the follow-ups, very useful. The only feature of my displays I’ve not looked into yet is getting VRR working now.

Edit: I wishlist Dorfromantik too :p

Thank you, good to have Wabbajack access on Linux.

I made extensive use of reWASD for a few games in the past. I’ll miss that program occasionally haha. AntiMicroX is probably the best sort of alternative yeah?

IMO, the best and quickest way to determine what I actually want to use and to learn rapidly is by using everything I can find and then tossing the redundants.

Faugus is just a GUI front end of umu launcher which is only CLI.

I pirate games and also own a lot of old games on disc so I can’t only use Heroic/Steam.

Extremely useful comment thank you!

try fucking figuring out which steam workshop mod is which

You can’t make me!

Thanks for the PINCE link!

One idea but it’s paid software and the compatibility list doesn’t give me a lot of confidence: https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/?name=adobe%3BcurPos%3D100

Instead I think you’d be using QEMU/KVM still and then Virt Manager for a macOS VM. Longer process, have not attempted myself. Same issue with needing GPU acceleration: Need to set up a GPU Passthrough. Similar problem sans dual booting being viable.

high-jacking your post

I don’t care, this thread is to vacuum up scattered knowledge pretty much. There’s no complete guide to any of this anywhere that I know of so I’m already learning of a bunch of new programs to use here to make my life easier.

Nice, I was just reading about using Optiscaler 's fakenvapi for spoofing DLSS support to inject FSR4 for Expedition 33 on my Radeon card. Extremely useful.

Theoretically you could use LIMO:

https://github.com/limo-app/limo

I have no idea how to use it yet.

It can be done with Winboat. I just finished my first experiment and tried Skyrim Special Edition with the Unofficial Patch and SkyUI. It worked, but I had to set up all the file paths manually since the game isn’t installed on the virtual machine. Winboat lets you access your Linux home directory on the Desktop so long as you enable that option while setting up Winboat.

That and at least with Skyrim, you need to run the game once on Linux first to generate the initial INI config files. Since it’s not installed on Windows you need to copy them out of the Steam prefix folder and then paste them where they’re expected to be on Windows. In Documents/My Games.

Once done modding, copy those INI files if any mods touched them and overwrite the INI files on Linux.

In Steam, set Skyrim’s launch arguments to:

bash -c ‘exec “${@/SkyrimLauncher.exe/skse_loader.exe}”’ – %command%

Then you’ll have Steam Overlay with Script Extender loaded.

Messy screenshot gallery: https://postimg.cc/gallery/6WGPD4h

Sorry bed time here and I’m learning how to do this on the fly. I didn’t organize this very much.

Given this success I expect Mod Organizer 2 and METweaks Mod Manager for Mass Effect would work too with some annoying babysitting.

edit: One thing that really annoying is Steam using the Title ID numbers for compatdata instead of the fucking game NAME. It’s not human friendly to navigate. Have to look up the TitleID on steamdb or sort compatdata folder by Modified most recently in Dolphin or whatever.

Awesome list, lsfg-vk caught my eye. I didn’t consider finding a way to use Lossless on Linux and I already own it.

Do the VR tools work well with a Meta Quest 3? That’s in my living room while my desktop still has a Valve Index set up which I know works better with Linux.

The ssh wizardry is impressive lol, I’m still learning the basics for now but I’ll keep this in mind.

Do you know of any tricks / command line entries for stubborn games that won’t use HDR correctly like Lego Star Wars - The Skywalker Saga? Gets wrong colors with HDR toggled on in Heroic and in-game. I’m stumped as to why.

Backup and restore for Steam, GOG, Epic, Heroic, Lutris, and other game libraries.

Sweet, I also have a Steam Deck so this perfect.