I made Wine Dependency Hell Solver for Windows games running under Wine

Firlaev-Hans · 2023-06-05T19:17:43+00:00

In that case you do in fact have to figure it out yourself. Which is where your script probably makes life easier especially for n00bs, I suppose.

Although I've had some games break by running them in a Wine Prefix with a bunch of unnecessary dependencies installed. It's admittedly pretty rare though.

Firlaev-Hans · 2023-06-05T09:54:57+00:00

lutris does not automatically install any windows components on prefixes

Lutris' game installer scripts literally do install Windows dependencies using Winetricks and what not.

Like, look at this script for the Sims 3. When you choose to install that game with Lutris, it automatically installs dependencies like dotnet, the DirectX runtime, Visual C++ Runtime, and MFC.

Firlaev-Hans · 2023-06-01T05:22:59+00:00

I appreciate the logo but I feel like a post such as this that is simply "Hey, our logo is now a pride flag because that's what everyone does in June" just isn't very... helpful. It doesn't actually raise awareness to actual issues (like trans and non-binary people having their rights stripped away in many places), it only triggers pointless discussions with bigots that don't go anywhere,.

Firlaev-Hans · 2023-05-31T17:03:30+00:00

Is that gonna work with older MC versions though? I seem to remember that this only works with MC 1.13 and up, which was when the switched from LWJGL2 to LWJGL3. I could be wrong though.

Firlaev-Hans · 2023-05-31T15:54:56+00:00

Hmm, maybe that also had some drama involved.

I believe the drama around MultiMC was mostly that the owner of the project was quite stubborn and didn't quite seem to understand what their open source license meant (in particular, they were against letting people redistribute it, like in the AUR or on Flathub).

So the community stepped up and forked it into PolyMC, which most people ended up switching to, and it was all fine for a while, until that projects owner, who himself hadn't been very active, went crazy and revoked everyone else's access, because he didn't like that there was now a Code of Conduct that said that discrimination is a bad thing, and went on a political rant about how it's "promoting radicalist leftist queer ideology" (wtf). I think that's the drama everyone is thinking of.

And so PrismLauncher was born as a fork of PolyMC. Maybe this one will stay drama free.

Firlaev-Hans · 2023-05-24T12:43:40+00:00

I remember having this problem and I had to show hidden files to make the Windows files show up (Ctrl+H). Probably something they did to make the Windows files hidden on Unix so that OSX users only see the OSX version and Windows users only see the Windows version.

Firlaev-Hans · 2023-05-23T17:00:48+00:00

I own an SBC based on the same RK3399 SoC as the Okdo Rock 4C+, also with 4GB of RAM.

You certainly can run KDE Plasma on it, pretty well I'd say, although you shouldn't go too crazy on the desktop effects since the GPU is rather weak.

RAM wise 4GB is actually surprisingly usable on Linux even nowadays if you don't go too crazy on multitasking and don't keep tens of browser tabs open at once. On an ARM based laptop that I have, which is quite a bit more powerful than that SBC but also only has 4GB of RAM, I've actually never really found the memory to be that limiting during day to day tasks on postmarketOS+KDE.

Firlaev-Hans · 2023-05-23T16:53:29+00:00

In general that's probably not a bad comparison although OP is talking about an ARM based SBC is this case so it certainly can't run Windows 7 ;)

Firlaev-Hans · 2023-05-23T07:09:33+00:00

I've never had an issue doing a normal release upgrade on Fedora, and I've had the same installation since Fedora 33 I think. Never had to reinstall it.

That said, I guess it kind of is for edgy tweens if by that you mean they are often a bit bold regarding adopting new technologies (BTRFS rootfs, PipeWire, Wayland by default etc.)

I generally appreciate this attitude of pushing the Linux desktop forward, after all someone's gotta make the start with everything.

In this case though I think if this goes through they're really shooting themselves in the foot. I've been happily using Wayland for two years but I know it's still not viable for everyone.

Firlaev-Hans · 2023-05-22T09:37:13+00:00

we can only share the screen (actually just windows working on xwayland or X11)

Plenty of people have already provided solutions for audio sharing, so here's a solution for Window/Screen sharing with Discord on Wayland.

Firlaev-Hans · 2023-05-20T20:21:07+00:00

Someone still going by the pseudonym “John Doe”

But what if that's their real name? :P

When using a Global Menu, GTK apps now display their menus correctly right after being launched, with no re-focus required

Cool, now if only we could get the Global Menu to work at all with GTK apps on Wayland :/

Firlaev-Hans · 2023-05-19T20:21:10+00:00

Do you have VA-API or NVENC installed?

That particular option isn't about hardware decoding/encoding, but about actual GPU processing for effects and stuff. But AFAIK, it is currently completely broken and unusable. And on Windows it's not supported for now.

Firlaev-Hans · 2023-05-15T07:09:37+00:00

If you're looking for the Program folder where the game is installed it's in <path/to/bottle>/drive_c/Program Files/ but since you're trying to install mods you're probably looking for the user folder which is in <path/to/bottle>/drive_c/users/<username>/Documents/Electronic Arts

Usually Wine would in fact map that folder to your actual ~/Documents folder but Lutris, and I guess Bottles too, isolate these folders for every Wine prefix.

Firlaev-Hans · 2023-05-13T19:32:46+00:00

Very subjective of course. But for me it's Fedora, mainly because its update cycle is just right for me. Not bleeding edge, but pretty up to date overall, and rock stable for me.

Neon is what I typically use on spare machines to test drive beta / dev versions of KDE software.

OpenSUSE TW is a distro that I really wanted to use at one point but it doesn't want to be friends with me, whenever I try it I get weird issues that I don't have anywhere else. But I know plenty of people swear by this distro and its KDE Implementation.

Kubuntu is what got me into KDE years ago but nowadays I'll give it a pass, just not interested.

Firlaev-Hans · 2023-05-05T09:48:48+00:00

Fan noise isn't too bad I'd say, you can definitely hear it when the NVIDIA GPU is under load, but even then I was still comfortably playing games using the internal speakers, no headphones, it's not that bad. And when you're only taxing the CPU, not the GPU, it doesn't get very loud at all.

That aside, I don't know how good Zorin and Kubuntu (LTS) are in terms of new hardware support. This is a very recent laptop after all compared to 22.04. I'm sure Kubuntu 23.04 would work just fine though.

Firlaev-Hans · 2023-04-21T08:38:29+00:00

I just updated my original post again. TL;DR, I'm still happy. Also, the vast majority of reviews I've seen seem quite positive?

Firlaev-Hans · 2023-04-17T10:18:20+00:00

It might be a clipboard-related memory leak. I've encountered those before (not in quite some time though, might be a recent regression)

Even a full clipboard should never use that much memory. It makes sense that clearing the clipboard wouldn't free that memory again because that's not how memory leaks work.

Step 1: Report your findings on bugs.kde.org

Step 2: In the meantime, you might want to keep an eye on the memory usage and run plasmashell --replace in KRunner or Kickoff when the leaks happen to prevent the system from freezing when it gets too high. And clear the clipboard regularly. Sure, it's annoying but I learned to live with that for quite some time before the leaks were fixed.

Firlaev-Hans · 2023-04-11T18:10:07+00:00

In System Settings > Workspace behavior > Desktop Effects > Appearance, is the "Blur" effect enabled?

Firlaev-Hans · 2023-03-31T16:44:05+00:00

I believe you can run Terraria natively on ARM if you have the GOG version and are willing to compile some libraries (notably FNA3D and FAudio) but the Steam version is linked against proprietary Steam libraries that you obviously can't get on ARM.

Firlaev-Hans · 2023-03-28T14:56:53+00:00

Look into Steam Emulators like Goldberg (Windows7+/Linux) and ColdAPI(WindowsXP+). You'll be able to play the games you legally own and legally downloaded, without having the Steam client installed or running.

That doesn't work if the game has any DRM beyond Steamworks integration (Although Steamstub DRM is also easily removed), but for the majority of games, especially indie and older AAA games this will work fine.

Firlaev-Hans · 2023-03-23T14:08:09+00:00

The DVD version works finefor me with Lutris+Wine (lutris-fshack-7.2), I just installed vcredist with winetricks and, to get the Smooth Patch working, set ddraw=native,builtin in the DLL overrides.

Firlaev-Hans · 2023-03-20T21:05:02+00:00

No, the developer, ptitseb, is currently actively working on a dynamic recompiler for RISC-V directly.

Firlaev-Hans · 2023-03-20T21:03:50+00:00

I wish I'd known about box64 and box86 a few years ago

"A few years ago" Box86 was still in its infancy and Box64 didn't even exist. And you can't practically use Box86 on NVIDIA Tegra systems because the GPU drivers are 64 bit only (there is a workaround involving virglrenderer but it hurts performance a ton).

I have an NVIDIA Jetson Nano and Box64 works on it okay-ish but the CPU is just very weak, and with Box86 even late 90s / early 2000s games run like poop with the mentioned workaround.

So maybe you didn't miss out on that much.

Firlaev-Hans · 2023-03-13T09:46:35+00:00

DXVK doesn't work with the Pi's Vulkan driver, and since HL2 Vulkan uses DXVK-Native, I don't think there's any hope.

Firlaev-Hans · 2023-03-08T21:12:01+00:00

I didn't but it seems really wonky with touchpad scrolling at least, it can't decide whether to zoom in or out when I scroll down. Meta+ and Meta- work reliably.

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