not manually, yeah, but bottles and such are still really useful. it shows how much good GUI tools help with usability for everyone
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Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 day agoI have been on Linux for over 15 years and even I don’t want to go back to the old days of manually installing Wine and having to create different prefixes to get different games to launch without sound. or some missing textures.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
eronth@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not just UI, but simplicity of operation. The closer to “it just works” a system/program is, the more palatable it is to adopt.
AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I ended up wading into the world of WINE prefixes when I tried to mod some older games. I got it working in the end, but it sure made me grateful for how easy I have it with Proton
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I, on the contrary, prefer it when everyone uses mainstream Wine with winetricks and prefixes so if something doesn’t work, you can at least fix it using someone’s advice posted on winehq. With Proton it seems that everyone expects stuff to either just work or doesn’t bother. The Proton advice is usually as valuable as Windows problems advice.
voodooattack@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What are you talking about? ProtonDB is full of such advice
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Like I said, similar quality to googling for Windows problems. Reports on WineHQ are sorted by Wine version, OS version, usually involve specific actions taken.
voodooattack@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
That’s exactly how protondb works. And you also get hardware and distro information.
You can search and filter reports by all of the aforementioned criteria for any game that’s listed.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
Proton is just Wine under the hood. I even use winetricks with it ¯_(ツ)_/¯
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Yes, I do that too, except different things work and don’t. And making tweaks for Proton in Steam seems more bother.
Zink@programming.dev 8 hours ago
Hear, hear!
There is nothing wrong, and in fact there is something good, with FOSS being polished and user friendly out of the box.
Historically that has not been a priority, because FOSS has been by the computer nerds, for the computer nerds. But if that priority shifts to being a bit more “by the computer nerds, for the normies” then that is a good thing as long as the developers don’t prevent the power users from accessing any part of the system they want. Fortunately that completely against the point of the FOSS world.
I first learned Unix in the 90s, I use my Linux desktop more than my phone, I’m an engineer on embedded systems digging through C and C++ code all day, I have terminals open all day, and… I have Linux Mint Cinnamon installed on all my machines and love it. Change My Mind, lol.