The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[WULULULULU]

The faggots on Reddit seem to have a lot of "YMMV" views on using Lutris vs. Heroic. Is it just another approach I can try or is it really better than Lutris altogether?

I use both.

For anyone using MangoHud, is there a way to show the CPU power draw? It's stuck at 0W, so something is definitely wrong with MangoHud.

 

[Day of the Cope]

The faggots on Reddit seem to have a lot of "YMMV" views on using Lutris vs. Heroic. Is it just another approach I can try or is it really better than Lutris altogether?

Well, you can say YMMV for just about anything on Linux. That said, I find the Heroic Game Launcher to be much better for GOG and Epic Game Store. No idea bout Amazon Gaming, never used it. The UI is a lot easier to navigate, setting up games is a lot simpler, and you can even access the store from the launcher. Most you might have to do is swap around what Wine version you have to use. That said, Epic updated their TOS lately, so you'll need to connect to Epic on your browser first and accept before you can connect.

For anyone using MangoHud, is there a way to show the CPU power draw? It's stuck at 0W, so something is definitely wrong with MangoHud.

Depends on if you're running Intel or AMD CPU.

 

[WULULULULU]

Depends on if you're running Intel or AMD CPU.

AMD AM5. I'm checking my power draw in game to see how far I could undervolt it and not risk getting raped by the electricity bills.

 

[Day of the Cope]

AMD AM5. I'm checking my power draw in game to see how far I could undervolt it and not risk getting raped by the electricity bills.

Make sure you have Zenpower3 installed. If you installed it through the AUR, note that it no longer complies since Kernel 6.14RC1 after some deletions on the amd_nb module.

 

[Lone Wandering Courier]

The faggots on Reddit seem to have a lot of "YMMV" views on using Lutris vs. Heroic. Is it just another approach I can try or is it really better than Lutris altogether?

Using both is fine. I use heroic for Epic and paid for GOG games. I use Lutris for disc games, pirated games, EA games (the ones I don't have on Steam).

 

[Eternal Spirit of Light]

Who gives a fuck about game launchers and mod bullshit. If you play (most) games you're wasting your time anyways.

 

[Belisarius Cawl]

Who gives a fuck about game launchers and mod bullshit. If you play (most) games you're wasting your time anyways.

I need a challenge for when the world of computing has been too kind to me

 

[Eternal Spirit of Light]

I need a challenge for when the world of computing has been too kind to me

Remake the game yourself.

 

[Belisarius Cawl]

Remake the game yourself.

Nah, not a game programmer. I don't have the requisite skillset for that.

 

[DavidS877]

I need a challenge for when the world of computing has been too kind to me

This is why I'm slowly assembling a MiSTer into a case with a raspberry Pi overlord/file server and some physical switches and other enhancements.

Because I need more hobby projects.

 

[Belisarius Cawl]

This is why I'm slowly assembling a MiSTer into a case with a raspberry Pi overlord/file server and some physical switches and other enhancements.

What do you plan on doing with it?

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

Who gives a fuck about game launchers and mod bullshit.

I mean... you can use an alias in your .profile file to launch games directly from an .exe so you don't need a launcher.

 

[Squishie PP]

Who gives a fuck about game launchers and mod bullshit. If you play (most) games you're wasting your time anyways.

My autism has limited reserves that I spend mostly on my work. Sometimes when I have had a long day, all I want to do is get cozy and play some games.

 

[Belisarius Cawl]

I mean... you can use an alias in your .profile file to launch games directly from an .exe so you don't need a launcher.

For most GOG games on Linux, assuming I'm not using Lutris or anything like it, it's typically a simple matter of downloading the installer, running it using Wine, then going into $HOME/.wine/drive_c/GOG Games/[game folder] then looking for the .lnk that runs the game and running it using wine start. (Maybe I'll have to do certain things like forcing the game to open in a window sometimes.) I don't use aliases just in general but can't see why I would start there.

 

[Eternal Spirit of Light]

My autism has limited reserves that I spend mostly on my work. Sometimes when I have had a long day, all I want to do is get cozy and play some games.

buy a lathe and a milling machine.

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

I don't use aliases just in general but can't see why I would start there.

You can do it for any game that doesn't have DRM, and some Steam games don't have it, or allow you to bypass it. Also, you could use any of the available open source steam emulators. You don't even need to sylink you can just write a command that runs it by either cd'ing into the folder with the game.exe, or running it directly from wine via command line like, "wine /your/game/game.exe*"
I do it for all my games because I can launch them directly from the terminal using this method.

 

[jONALD]

Who gives a fuck about game launchers and mod bullshit. If you play (most) games you're wasting your time anyways.

PAY YOUR RESPECT TO GAMES, THEY ARE WHY COMPUTERS ARE SO POWERFUL AT ALL

 

[Belisarius Cawl]

You can do it for any game that doesn't have DRM, and some Steam games don't have or it allow you to bypass it. Or, you could use any of the available open source steam emulators. You don't even need to sylink you can just write a command that runs it by either cd'ing into the folder with the game.exe, or running it directly from wine via command line like, "wine /your/game/game.exe*"
I do it for all my games because I can launch them directly from the terminal using this method.

The way I have things set up, I run tmux with a bunch of windows that are set up to persist between sessions. One of these windows is labelled "Gaming" and in that window the current directory is always wherever I need it to be for the purposes of gaming (unless just running an AppImage out of the Downloads folder, which another window handles), and said directory doesn't change a lot, especially because I like games that I can get a lot of mileage out of. For example, now the "Gaming" window looks like this:

So that's the GOG installation of Wizardry 6 (with the third-party mapping tool because fuck using graph paper). It would be easy to switch back over to Railroad Tycoon 2 because they're in the same overarching folder and I'm going to be playing either for a long time at one stretch. And there are six other windows to handle all my other bullshit so I don't have to commit a whole bunch of directories to memory.

EDIT: It's subtle but hell yeah case sensitivity when I installed the automapper

 

[Day of the Cope]

Who gives a fuck about game launchers and mod bullshit. If you play (most) games you're wasting your time anyways.

He says, on a web forum started to laugh at retards on the internet.

 

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You can do it for any game that doesn't have DRM, and some Steam games don't have it, or allow you to bypass it. Also, you could use any of the available open source steam emulators. You don't even need to sylink you can just write a command that runs it by either cd'ing into the folder with the game.exe, or running it directly from wine via command line like, "wine /your/game/game.exe*"
I do it for all my games because I can launch them directly from the terminal using this method.

Do aliases get carried through to your WM/DE? If I'm not using Lutris or Steam, I tend to just start games with whatever 'run' option the WM I'm using uses.

Assuming that you are mostly running games with a graphical user interface, and you don't need to see the console output, I would suggest that a more convenient way to do this is to, in your ~/bin or ~/.local/bin folder or wherever you keep your user-specific executables, is to just create shell scripts with appropriate names to run the games- making it easier to change directories and set environment variables etc, if you need to do that.