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What do you hate about linux?
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Honestly, the fact I don't have as much time as I'd like to contribute workarounds.
Take yesterday, I got Magic and Mayhem (the classic) running via wine, but I had to create a new wine prefix to remove dpi scaling (because, Apparently, the winecfg graphic tab is global, and if dpi scaling is used it truncates the game's display). Still can't get the music working, but that's what MOC is for, and I did use an old cracked version.
I want to make a lutris install script for this, but I lack the time. That's my main dislike of Linux - I wish there was a solid indexed forum to share game workarounds that had a drop-down search by game.
I feel the same ! I wish I could dedicate time to help programmers out..its actually what made me even more interested in learning how. I want to contribute !
The closest thing we have to this is probably protondb but I've never seen any super in-depth tweaks from users there. I'm also not 100% sure if they have non steam games posted there. If they do I imagine there's not exactly a ton of posted guides by users
I play a lot of abandonware titles, and there is a spot (90s and early 00s) that are a pain to run. I can normally figure it out on a spare day, but I know a lot of folks just give up.
Hey I play a lot from that era as well! I tend to try to find the ps1 versions so I can just use duckstation...or install win98 in a virtual machine. Runs games pretty well then with no compatibility problems.