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Playing PC games on Linux through Steam is pretty decent, if imperfect, setup these days. But I still get tripped up when it comes to the non-PC game stuff. Su

Playing PC games on Linux through Steam is pretty decent, if imperfect, setup these days. But I still get tripped up when it comes to the non-PC game stuff. Such as mods, streaming from other platforms (playing my PS5 on my PC), or other community tools that have a tendency to be Windows-focused. I still haven't been able to pull the trigger on running Linux on my main desktop.

giancarlostoro 2y ago
> Such as mods, streaming from other platforms (playing my PS5 on my PC), or other community tools that have a tendency to be Windows-focused. I have not done mods in a while, but I could have sworn it was as easy as adding it to Steam too, and it detected the game in its "wine" directory. Or something like that? I'm not too sure...
- piaste 2y ago
  The games themselves run perfectly fine in Wine (Proton), with or without mods. Unfortunately, the fan-made tools to support mods are less reliable. The most notable example is probably Wabbajack, a tool that manages modpacks for many games but is best known for TES games, where modlists consist of hundreds of mods and are a pain to manually install. Ironically it is a WPF app written in modern C#, so in principle _could_ run under Wine just fine, and could even be ported to a native GUI app via Avalonia UI or similar. Unfortunately, it is apparently quite fragile in its path management and relies on both Edge WebView to download mods and Windows Steam to install them, so the maintainers think it's not viable to make it run under Wine [0], although of course someone has bashed together a script to work around it [1]. That last one is quite recent so I just discovered it while writing this post! [0] https://github.com/wabbajack-tools/wabbajack/issues/2521 https://github.com/wabbajack-tools/wabbajack/issues/2521 [1] https://github.com/Omni-guides/Wabbajack-Modlist-Linux/blob/main/binaries/WabbajackWine.sh https://github.com/Omni-guides/Wabbajack-Modlist-Linux/blob/...

giancarlostoro 2y ago

> Such as mods, streaming from other platforms (playing my PS5 on my PC), or other community tools that have a tendency to be Windows-focused. I have not done mods in a while, but I could have sworn it was as easy as adding it to Steam too, and it detected the game in its "wine" directory. Or something like that? I'm not too sure...

piaste 2y ago
The games themselves run perfectly fine in Wine (Proton), with or without mods. Unfortunately, the fan-made tools to support mods are less reliable. The most notable example is probably Wabbajack, a tool that manages modpacks for many games but is best known for TES games, where modlists consist of hundreds of mods and are a pain to manually install. Ironically it is a WPF app written in modern C#, so in principle _could_ run under Wine just fine, and could even be ported to a native GUI app via Avalonia UI or similar. Unfortunately, it is apparently quite fragile in its path management and relies on both Edge WebView to download mods and Windows Steam to install them, so the maintainers think it's not viable to make it run under Wine [0], although of course someone has bashed together a script to work around it [1]. That last one is quite recent so I just discovered it while writing this post! [0] https://github.com/wabbajack-tools/wabbajack/issues/2521 https://github.com/wabbajack-tools/wabbajack/issues/2521 [1] https://github.com/Omni-guides/Wabbajack-Modlist-Linux/blob/main/binaries/WabbajackWine.sh https://github.com/Omni-guides/Wabbajack-Modlist-Linux/blob/...