If its a loose folder of game files yeah you just add it as a non steam game and set the proton to run it with. Most games should kinda just work I did that with the need for speed series but some require protontricks to install some missing dependencies which should be within the game files. Although most of the games i get are abandonware so no experience of modern pirated stuff on the deck specifically
I have also done it this way for installer files. Added as a non steam game then launch and install. Once installed i change the same non steam games properties to the exe of the game to launch. I do this mostly because i generally have bad experiences with lutris although heroic tends to be fine
The most common experience I have trying to run games through wine, lutris, bottles, and half the time on steam, is I click the run program button and nothing happens. Literally zero feedback. Some methods get a microsecond of loading cursor. Anything where a program has to alter or update a directory is maddening. Like I got touhou 7 running through steam pretty easily but no chance of figuring out how to apply the English patch.
The one that finally made me boot windows again was project diablo 2. I actually got bottles to run the installer over its internal folder for diablo 2 and ran it once a year ago, but trying to do it again with recent version, I just couldn’t trick bottles into running it again.
Yep! I have the same thing happen all the time. I end up eventually figuring out a weird list of steps that work at least half the time, some of which are probably nothing but superstition and make no logical sense, but I do them every time because that specific list of steps is the only thing I know works and screwing one up can and has made it completely fail without feedback. And if it doesn’t work, I’ll try again, after a few repeats I’ll reboot the whole system - because sometimes for Omnissiah knows why, that fixes it. That’s a common Thing To Do on Windows, that isn’t supposed to be necessary or even do any good on Linux, and yet.
I swear, Linux makes me feel like a fucking WH40K tech priest, and not in a good way. But Winblows makes me feel like the guy asking for tech support who the AdMech consider dirt on their tank tracks, so.
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I find Linux frictionless as long as you stick to the programs in your “store” but beyond that it’s a total crapshoot. Sometimes you google it and immediately find a command you can paste into the terminal to do exactly what you needed… Sometimes you spent 45 minutes setting something up only to click go and nothing at all happens.
I’m running Mint. It mostly happens with video games made for Winblows running through Lutris, and usually gets worse/most unpredictable when mods and user generated content are involved. I’ve accepted that those kinds of factors are going to break shit. I’m not in the midst of trying to sort out any one issue - though it’s good to know I can just kvetch about any given Linux problem on Hexbear and a helpful bear will try to find out what exactly is going on (that’s what it usually means on the Internet when someone asks what distro I’m running) - I just wanted to rant.
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If its a loose folder of game files yeah you just add it as a non steam game and set the proton to run it with. Most games should kinda just work I did that with the need for speed series but some require protontricks to install some missing dependencies which should be within the game files. Although most of the games i get are abandonware so no experience of modern pirated stuff on the deck specifically
I have also done it this way for installer files. Added as a non steam game then launch and install. Once installed i change the same non steam games properties to the exe of the game to launch. I do this mostly because i generally have bad experiences with lutris although heroic tends to be fine
This is hilarious to me, because on my Linux box, I have never once gotten “non-steam game” to work using Steam, but Lutris works like fuckin’ magic.
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If we merge ourselves together then we will have neither working and all will be well in the world
Sometimes that OS does feel like “nothing working” is its intended state, lol… but at least it’s not Microslop Winblows.
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The most common experience I have trying to run games through wine, lutris, bottles, and half the time on steam, is I click the run program button and nothing happens. Literally zero feedback. Some methods get a microsecond of loading cursor. Anything where a program has to alter or update a directory is maddening. Like I got touhou 7 running through steam pretty easily but no chance of figuring out how to apply the English patch.
The one that finally made me boot windows again was project diablo 2. I actually got bottles to run the installer over its internal folder for diablo 2 and ran it once a year ago, but trying to do it again with recent version, I just couldn’t trick bottles into running it again.
Yep! I have the same thing happen all the time. I end up eventually figuring out a weird list of steps that work at least half the time, some of which are probably nothing but superstition and make no logical sense, but I do them every time because that specific list of steps is the only thing I know works and screwing one up can and has made it completely fail without feedback. And if it doesn’t work, I’ll try again, after a few repeats I’ll reboot the whole system - because sometimes for Omnissiah knows why, that fixes it. That’s a common Thing To Do on Windows, that isn’t supposed to be necessary or even do any good on Linux, and yet.
I swear, Linux makes me feel like a fucking WH40K tech priest, and not in a good way. But Winblows makes me feel like the guy asking for tech support who the AdMech consider dirt on their tank tracks, so.
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I find Linux frictionless as long as you stick to the programs in your “store” but beyond that it’s a total crapshoot. Sometimes you google it and immediately find a command you can paste into the terminal to do exactly what you needed… Sometimes you spent 45 minutes setting something up only to click go and nothing at all happens.
What distro are you using?
I’m running Mint. It mostly happens with video games made for Winblows running through Lutris, and usually gets worse/most unpredictable when mods and user generated content are involved. I’ve accepted that those kinds of factors are going to break shit. I’m not in the midst of trying to sort out any one issue - though it’s good to know I can just kvetch about any given Linux problem on Hexbear and a helpful bear will try to find out what exactly is going on (that’s what it usually means on the Internet when someone asks what distro I’m running) - I just wanted to rant.
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I doubt I know any more about it than you do, solidarity lol
I dunno how long you’ve been using Linux but 5 years ago steam was trash compared to now, I can play almost everything in my library now.