Æsoteric Positron
I AM GROOT (and so are you)
Hey ever tried Lutris? Heard its awesome for auto-setting up games with wine with minimal headache
Linux Discussion Thread
- Thread starter Vyom
- Start date
-
- Tags
- bionic beaver linux ubuntu
Yes. I use Lutris scripts to setup games. I am currently using Lutris with Battlefield 1 (Origin), Mod Organizer for Skyrim and Fallout 4 and Hearthstone.
RumbaMon19
Feel Pain.
Which distro do you guys recommend for stability?
pkkumarcool
Game & anime Lover
Can you tell how it works and why not play game on windows why use linux and advantages of using it?
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
RumbaMon19
Feel Pain.
suppose you work on linux and get tired and wanna play, but dont want to boot to windows or maybe you dont have a dual boot setup in the first place then this comes handy.
other reason is some people prefer to be on a open source platform, they can also be volunteers. So they prefer it.
imo Windows has gained a monoply in many things and there needs to be some alternative otherwise they would keep pushing out junk like Windows10 which often gets bugs after updates. They have also not fixed some important things like UWP or start menu which is pretty unoptimised.
Depends on what you want to use it for. For desktop Linux Mint, Manjaro, etc. For server Debian or Red Hat.
To help improve gaming on Linux. I not only play on Linux, I also report bugs or if some games that don't run and hopefully someone implements fixes to make it run. And I am not the only one. If you see Valve's Proton github: ValveSoftware/Proton there are many people who report issues regarding different games using Proton and everyone analyzes the root cause and even provide fixes which make the games run. Thanks to their efforts many games that were previously not running on Linux now run.
sling-shot
Wise Old Owl
My personal distro of choice is PCLinuxOS. They don't have a direct way to install Proton.
How do I go about this?
How do I go about this?
sling-shot
Wise Old Owl
Then how to get steam? There seem to be no binary for this distro.
I am not very familiar with PCLinuxOS so you might want to check out their community for more specific solutions.
I see that PCLinuxOS uses apt and Synaptic, so I think it should have steam. Since Steam is available in the repositories of all distros I think it's unlikely that it's excluded here.
Try
Note that you will need to have 32-bit graphics libraries and drivers for Steam to run.
I see that PCLinuxOS uses apt and Synaptic, so I think it should have steam. Since Steam is available in the repositories of all distros I think it's unlikely that it's excluded here.
Try
sudo apt-get install steam and see if it works.Note that you will need to have 32-bit graphics libraries and drivers for Steam to run.
RumbaMon19
Feel Pain.
On there website it is mentioned it support apt-get, so use this
sudo apt install steam-installer
if it is not there, then you need to compile the tarball yourself.
*repo.steampowered.com/steam/archive/precise/steam_latest.tar.gz
For guide, follow this
*developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_under_Linux#Unpackaged
sling-shot
Wise Old Owl
Steam was previously packaged and made available through standard repos. Looks like recently they decided not to do it or the volunteer who did it earlier stopped working on it. It is a small community.
sling-shot
Wise Old Owl
I will try this then.
You could also try installing from Valve's official Steam repo - Steam for Linux - launcher
You can either download the deb file directly or set up the repo so that you can install using apt. It's better to do the latter.
RumbaMon19
Feel Pain.
Even in the beginning, Mint came with snap disabled as it fiddled with other packages, so its better they dump it.
What do you think about flatpak? it seems nice but not all apps have been adapted to it.
sling-shot
Wise Old Owl
I will try the second method.
RumbaMon19
Feel Pain.
Good for purchasing games, as chromeos based pcs usually have extremely limited specs, so gaming ain't easy on them.