Ganhu/Linux General - Stallman is my Waifu Edition

its not, you only install retroarch or use wine to run emus like CEMU, the only thing i havent tried on linux is Wii/NGC emulators, in fact its easier to get emulators running in linux than it is to get a single PC game from the last 5 years to boot

change to wine devel? its at 2.14, also check the appdb

Man I meant to try out the Zachtronics games but never got around to it, should I start out with any in particular? Shenzhen looks the most interesting to me as I'm in EE and interested in both circuit design and firmware. I've also been meaning to play some of the other flash games besides Codex but don't really want to install Flash again.

Total Annihilation should work happily, at least I don't remember needing to screw around with it compared to certain games. However I am running the GOG version with TA Bugfix, nothing fancy, apparently there's been a bunch of special hacks to it lately.

Better idea: Fuck CEMU and Project64. They're cancer.

The only problem I have is ugly fonts. And that shit isn't something specific to Yume Nikki, that's almost in every game I run through Wine.

I'd say that SpaceChem is the classic Zachtronics experience, but I haven't played the others yet, honestly. I finished SpaceChem and am currently trying to finish TIS-100, but I'm getting way too frustrated. What's most infuriating is that I'm trying to do something quite simple, but I lack the tools to do it simply. It's like trying to drive a nail into a wooden board with a baseball bat instead of a hammer and with your hands tied behind your back. In a zero gravity environment.

Subcom does work fucking amazingly with FAF, though. The fan client is actually natively cross platform.

Works dandy, thanks user

The share pasta has a section for linux games, and lgdb.org/ has a list of linux games in general, but I don't know what you're talking about. If had *tor, it's probably also *ator though.

sims 2 in wine never ever

You have horrible taste

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Bumping, I am in need of help. I have some shitty ports which run, but have odd bugs. Anybody knows how to fix them? I am on Debian Jessie.

ETS2
NFSU2
war thunder
POSTAL 2
99% of good games work but it would be nice if a shit game worked well every now and then, For instance nfs prostreet is a d3d9 game that's broken to this day. Meanwhile 3000x worse games that are just trash all over are making huge progress like gta 5.

Why do you need to emulate sims 2 when linux works just fine for masturbating to porn of galko-chan's sister?

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What's the process of improving on wine like anyways?

Shadow Tactics, Left 4 Dead 2 and trying to get into ARMA 3

Not really a wine problem I suppose but it sucks that steam won't let me download the windows games so I could emulate them, not with a native steam install anyway.

Creative for their sound jewery, if not for them we could have great soundscapes by now.

Any popular good fightan game that works on linux? And if not any one where the crack has working MP? I only have Skullgirls working right now and I am really not too fond of playing that online.

Soku (touhou 12.3) with sokuroll works great.

Im using mint cinnamon.
Is it possible to play lewd nip vidya and install all the autistic mods in a win7 virtual machine? How limited is a VM in relation on playing videogames? How about multiplayer? Steam?

VM is perfect because it's literally running windows. There's no compatibility problems if the VM software supports your hardware. The only thing different is the overhead from the host machine which means you may get a few less FPS.

which is the best VM? And how safe is it while running shit like steam?

Lag, and the possibility of not being able to use your GPU if you can't do a passthrough. I recommend dualbooting over using a VM. That being said, you should always try wine first.

There's some obscure exploits that can go through VMing and Sandboxing, but unless you're Public Enemy #1, or you're a complete retard, you'll be fine

Depends on your hardware. What CPU do you have?

lol, plebs

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i wish, because of the cpu i can only use win10 took away her phone so she doesnt call her dad and its a pain in the ass, i only use it for my lewd games like AA2.

That CPU has VT-d so you should be able to use PCI pass through in your VM. Definitely worth doing instead of dual booting.

I feel incredibly sorry for your loss user. You haven't even tried installing win7?

i tried, but some hardware didnt want to be detected at all, tried to force some drivers on win7, some manage to run others didnt, so i just gave up, installed mint cinnamon as my main OS and win10 for lewd vidya.
Moving to penguin OS was bound to happen, but i never though because of a fucking CPU, lesson learned.

thats good to hear, so i guess Virtualbox is the program of choice?

They don't call it Wintel for nothing. Hardware would have needed a Stallman almost more than software.

Virtualbox is pretty idiot-proof and you should try it first. I remember some problems with PCI passthrough under Linux, but that was a while ago and according to virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#pcipassthrough it should be supported now.

Is that really popular and usable?

Why would you do that if it can likely be done with wine too?

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Not going to get better if you just switch to windows light instead of asking around in the wine community.

Kinda awkward to tell a bunch of other faggots, even anonymously, that you need help having your hgames running

Sure, that may be the case but on the other hand you might run into people who did manage to get it running and since the most info you are offering is your machine specs I don't see what would keep you.

Oh, quit being a pussy. Everyone's a degenerate on the Internet.

No it's not. How could it be? You're just a string of characters on a website detailing how to get something running. Grow a pair ffs.

Infinifactory
random shit in retroarch tfw might get to actually experience 10 player Saturn Bomberman before I die
sonic.exe next week

steam.exe being an insufferable piece of shit and only working in xp mode, as always

Valve. Where the fuck is the 64-bit client I'm sick of keeping all this legacy x86 bullshit installed why do I need a fucking printer server for a goddamn crippled package manager

Whats wrong with windows light?

Because it is still windows you are running but now with a crazy overhead. I am not saying that there is no use for a win VM but if you run it too often you might as well run it natively.

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What's the most up-to-date Linux distro in terms of driver support and preinstalls for quick setup?

I'm an advance user, know how to compile and read code. Just want something fast on a new machine I'm building.

Looking to play and render games, likely Godot and Blender, streaming, P2P, and bunch of experiments. Please no SystemD. The machine will boot Windows 7 and XP on separate drives, but I do not object to WineHQ as a preinstall. Please, not too much bloat. I can do without an IDE just fine. I'll just install i3 or awesome. I can live without Steam like I've always have.

Was there some UI game loader thing, so you can just select games, and it auto boots and shuts down the engine or emulator like MAME? Might actually end up installing that for kids & events

Forgot to say: will be emulating Dolphin, PS3, and any of the above. IIRC Dolphin had an optimized fork, no? Ishiiruka is it?

if you hate systemd (i dont see the point) a lot, manjaro (you have to install openrc later) or slackware.

by the ui game loader, do you mean retroarch?

SystemD is going to cause many problems, and it is a constant vulnerability roller-coaster.

Pros and Cons, and what does or doesn't come with? I assume you are leaning towards mGAMe for Manjaroo, no?

No, something you customize the loader's screenshot/videos samples and browse through it. It looked a lot like Stepmania/DDR but in 4x3 grids. When highlighting a game, it would slideshow fade screenshots or play the video&sound sample.
It was not DJL.

I just use Debian on everything as it's the most well-built and supported.
Debian with sysvinit-core. But it's not that bad other than for the bloat and journald's CPU burn. It's mainly an issue on embedded.

there's a few to point out, manjaro is more bleeding edge than slackware, manjaro is easier to install than slackware.

make sure to note that debian by default uses stable packages but can be modified to get the testing or unstable packages instead.

Switching to testing or unstable is a mistake if you want a system for real use and not playing around. It's like using preview builds of Windows for day to day use.
If you need something specific you can't wait for, I'd recommend using Debian backports just for that specific package. They're officially supported now for stretch (backports.debian.org).

The point is not starting from scratch, and making yet another distro. It's highly likely I may install retroarch for compatibility sakes, but I still prefer downloading source form the latest emulator's sites and compiling that.
The driver's and preinstalls should have implied that. Unless you know of a debian script/apt-get or distro like Manjaroo already preinstalled with basic drivers (legal or not) so I don't have to hunt everything down.

Personal use I use FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Android, and used to use Debian.
Just setting up a dev and gaming rig this time on an i5. Will disable ME as soon as my flasher gets here. The machine requires a separate Win7 and XP disk w/boot to test cross compiles.

I'm fine with either, considering the GPU is an RX 480, I want to try all 3 drivers. And I really don't mind switching boot images for all three. But if I target debian, I assume I have to stick with stable as that is what everyone will "support" coming publish date.
Mmm, I will be downloading the latest sources of Blender as I go. Godot will have to be a frozen candidate after release.

Obvs. I am emulating Andriod, so one of the new dev kits w/VM images will have be installed.

It sounds like you want to just fuck around rather than accomplish anything. But they do have an installer that includes all the non-free firmware.
cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/

Thanks for your useful opinion. I wonder why people don't take Linux gaming seriously on >>>Holla Forums

Manjaro is dropping the openrc support so it's likely that it will break entirely at some point.

Update: The "loader" was called Lutris: lutris.net/
I guess people call it a game "manager", while the devs. call it a platform.
Colloquialism is a bitch.

Thanks for this link!

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This is pretty hardcore summary: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_gaming
Maybe stuff from here can be incorporated into OPs?

I see, so the one I saw was Launchbox years ago. And this link list some:
alternativeto.net/software/launchbox/?platform=linux

And Lutris is still in alpha stage:
github.com/lutris/lutris
Interesting.

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Wondering if Codemonkey is going to implement other URLs for video embeds like bitchute and vid.me