Wait, isn’t protontricks just a set of wrappers or so?

wait, it actually works as a steam manager?

steam prefix* manager

what that mean

it doesn’t manage native games

it manages virtual c drives (known as prefix or bottle) made by steam’s proton

not sure how that’s helpful

mods, dependencies etc

so can’t use it to load up the games? 🙁

(mods that require installers i mean)

you can, but it will launch steam as well

ah

i wonder if steam will ever allow headless mode

like say, a game needs a dependency steam doesn’t automatically install (rare tbh, you can find them here)

systemd-steamd where

that’s kinda nice

what about those nasty protontricks

protontricks works too, but this just looks tidier :p

wait, isn’t protontricks just a set of wrappers or so?

wrappers and a bunch of bash scripts

so it does the same thing, then?

bottles does stuff outside of proton and steam as well

i never really understood how to apply protontricks patches properly

wine feels like a mess

like setting VK_ICD_FILENAMES and so on?

it is indeed, i mean it’s trying to run windows stuff, it’s gotta be messy :v

you can do that in bottles, even directly in steam too,

i do it directly in steam now

but it’s awful

i tried running the games from the terminal just to circumvent it

but i am 3dumb5that

to use wine manually this is what you need to know
1. what a prefix is
2. how to choose a wine binary in winetricks
3. how to choose a prefix when running wine or winetricks
that’s all the important ones

is there a 101 tutorial on it anywhere?

i tried installing a wineserver manually but i ran into 32 bit issues

I had Qt4Wine or something set up on my old desktop running Kubuntu. Worked pretty well for the stuff I used (like the Construct 2 installer). Just double click and it runs. 👌

I wish it were easy to merge the wine folders with an existing Windows install on disk.

might be worth a shot