I have decided to switch to Linux Mint from windows. I don’t use computer for work that much. And for my personal use I’m switching to Linux Mint. I have heard a lot about it. So giving it a try. I know about emulating windows in linux to play window games. But how do you use cracks and stuff?? Does emulating also access my 100% graphics card or less? I want to know about all these. Please people in my condition help. Thanks in advance :)
I ain’t gonna say it’s as easy as Windows but I personally haven’t had too much trouble running cracked games using the Lutris launcher.
Lutris also lets you show logs by right click on the game, So if you get an error while playing or loading it gives you something to look up.
Also you can ask for help over at /c/[email protected]
Welcome to the club!
Thank you. For suggesting the lemmy group. Is there any youtuber for learning linux mint stuff and cracked games Linux stuff?
Its the same as windows but the amount of OS specific help youll find is lower since less people use it. It helps to figure out which version of linux your distro is based on and look for help with that instead to broaden the results.
For example on my popos station I usually search for Ubuntu help, and on my endeavouros system I would search arch help.
The good thing about linux though is its all the same ideas just packages slightly different, kinda like learning slang.
Start with the terminal, how to open it and where it is, then how to move around the directory (usually CD, with a few modifiers for moving up or down), list directory contents so you can “see” them, and manage it with removing or touching (creating) objects or folders.
Then figure out how to install packages, this should have a mint specific page for it though. Every dostro has a few things they explicitly explain and package mangement is almost always one of them.
They will likely list a few different methods, test each of them out with some apps you planned on installing already, or just find safe test ones to add and remove.
If you have time though you can figure this stuff out as each hurdle appears, rather than speed running them, but this is how I would approach a new linux distro at first.
Also dont be afraid to scrap it and try something else if you decide its not working for you. I ran bazzite for a week before changing to endeavouros and I’m very happy I did.
Edit to add: for crack specific stuff, honestly there doesnt seem to be any sort of segregating the legal and non-legal communities when it comes to linux. Feel free to look or ask in the same places you would ask for legitimate support, but do be careful you dont get into the habit of blindly trusting any script posted in a YouTube video.
Just for future reference, you have the link almost perfect but instead of
/c/use!for communities andfor users. This will link to the intended resource while keeping the user on their instance.So like [email protected] for a community or @[email protected] for a user. Fwiw I’m on the Test Flight version of Arctic and it now autocompletes as you’re typing those formatted links.
I highly recommend Bottles, Lutris and ProtonUP-Qt. Maybe this wiki page, this guide or this video can help you.
I guess portproton will never gain popularity…
Use bottles. It works great for me.
Install bottles via flatpak. Run it and create a new bottle with the gaming preset. Got to the settings - > runners and download the latest “proton-ge” runner. Then just add the exe to the bottle and add it to your library. Launch to play.
It really helps smooth the curve. Some installers fail to open so I use the system default to install it and then copy them over to my games directory.
PS: if you see no exe files being listed when you try to add an exe, clear the file filter in the bottom to all files. Bottles has this weird bug on some DEs
Good luck
Thank you. I have a lot to learn.
Lutris is what you need. I have recently migrated from windows to Bazzite OS. Most of the games I play work flawlessly. I was dual-booting, but eventually got rid of windows. It’s a waste of space, time, and energy
Bottles should make it really simple. You might run into the occasional problem with the installers, but they usually have workarounds.
Additionally: look for johncena141’s releases. They’re obnoxiously packed (you got to have DwarFS, annoying to install in Mint*), but he’ll typically provide native versions of the game if possible, and when it needs an emu layer he also bundles it with the WINE version that it works the best with.
*to be honest I use his releases mostly to extract the contents.
Everyone else has already replied to your question, but take a tip from me. If you have an old PC or low-spec system, dual-boot Linux Mint alongside Windows. Run games on Windows natively because Wine always yields fewer FPS than Windows.
Proof: I get around 45-55 FPS in a game called Dread Templar on Proton, but on Windows, I get 60 FPS with same settings.
Lutris handles it very well, simply has an add button in the top corner with a few options:
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Install with windows executable: games that need an installer first
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Preinstalled game: if you have a game or drive that doesnt need to be installed, you can just tell it where the .exe is and what runner to use.
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Search lutris: great for software or things that are free to download from the browser. Basically preconfigured install packages. For example I installed PlayStation plus via their installer.
Lutris uses runners to emulate systems, wine is the windows emulator, it also has retro game emulators and such. There’s a runners section in the preferences in lutris.
The prefix is confusing at first, but the default selection usually works. The prefix is just the folder the emulator files are installed in. Each folder with a wine game gets a c drive and program files and all that, and I usually install the games themselves in the “c” drive. You can make a new one for each game or share them between games. Sorta like docker containers for games.
Super easy stuff, not everything works but protondb.com is a place people post if it works on linux or not and what fixes might be needed.
If you DM I can send you some specific walkthroughs or videos so you can walk through it a step at a time.
If you can bring a drive with preinstalled games from your windows installation, that will give you a huge head start. Most will be add to lutris and play. Thats it!
P.S. anything you have in steam is even easier, steam loves linux
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Check out bottles, there you can easily run your cracked games
Is bottle different from wine ? And thank you for suggesting it. I’ll look it up.
No, bottles is just a program that enables you to use wine much more comfortably.
Wine isn’t super hard to use, but it’s annoying. So stuff like Bottles and Lutris exist, both basically do the same. They give you both a GUI and much easier accessable settings for the wine-prefixes. Those prefixes basically are just folders with the faked windows stuff in it.
Lutris is made for games but can be used for programs too. Bottles is made out of the box for both games and programs, has a much more streamlined interface and workflow and lets you easily create new “bottles” (bottle is just the given name for a wine prefix) for each of your games / programs.
Putting everything in their own bottle / prefix is really handy because it allows you to modify the prefix for each application without ruining it for another. If you need a specific version of a certain .dll file for one game but not for others, you can just install that .dll file in the specific bottle / prefix for that one specific game, and the other games just use their own bottles / prefixes with the default .dll for example.
Very handy.
Bottles is usually more recommended because it’s more streamlined… Also the dev of lutris seems quite toxic and isn’t good with making friends in the scene :D
I used bottles for a while, until it wiped basically all of my game data. Lutris is much better imo, use wine-ge and had zero issues
