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PC Gamer: "I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop" (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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[–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

I've mostly stuck to SteamOS myself, since trying to install Wine manually (on Ubuntu) to run a couple of Windows apps went alarmingly badly. Command after command, and I could still only get it to start as root.

There's definitely still room for a distro that loads, scans your drive for a Windows partition and Windows apps, and just lets you run them with minimal fuss.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Check out Bottles. It has been great for getting stuff to work outside of steam - tons of options for different versions of wine and does most of the work for you. Although, you can just add any windows program you want to use Proton as a "non-steam game" in steam, and let steam sort it out with Proton. The downside there is that Steam will always be trying to tell people that you are "currently playing" whatever it is... So I used that for WoW (technically Blizzard launcher), but didn't want to use that for just programs.

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