Context:
I’m currently running Debian 12.7 on VirtualBox, trying out linux before I become experienced enough to fully switch my drive to linux. I have an i5 cpu and an amd radeon gpu on my laptop. I run kde-plasma with wayland.
I have sorted out some basic stuff, but my current problem is how to play the few games I have on linux (“Counter-strike 1.6”, “Hades I”, “MGR: Revengeance”, “Minecraft” (t-launcher) and “Outer-Wilds”). I want ro move their game data too, but I think that’s a simple copy paste on the appropriate paths. I also want to run a few other programs, possibly Notepad++ and mp3tag, but I think I can figure those if I fugre the games.
I know about the existance of Wine, Winetricks (though not very good at using it), Proton, Lutris, Bottles and Heroic (and PlayOnLinux which I haven’t installed).
I have installed Lutris (flatpak), Bottles (flatpak) and Heroic (Appimage).
I have successfully manually installed Notepad++ in Bottles using soda-9.0.1 and semi-successfully manually installed Counter-strike 1.6 on Lutris using wine-ge-8-26-x86_64. The issues with that (among others?) is that I cant look around with the mouse and there is no audio. Apparently some dependencies are missing.
So, this comes to my question:
How do I figure what dependencies to use on my wineprefixes?
Lutris, bottles and heroic theoritically allow you to edit the dependencies, in case something goes wrong. Lutris also is supposed to have some installation scripts on their database.
Is there any way I can find any configuration in text form? How can I then use this text to pick the dependencies myself?
I’m thinking of a list with the recommended changes:
Counter-strike 1.6 installation script:
Install
Windows fonts
Install
cmd
Install
vcrun2013
Do
Xchanges on registry
etc.
Is there such a thing? Is there any other way to figure this out (other than painfully and randomly trying setup combinations)?
Oh, I forgot to mention, I have intel cpu and amd gpu, I will edit it above.
I am using plasma kde with wayland. I will check pipewire later too probably.
Thank you for the text editor suggestions :) I have found geany as an alternative, but it has some limitations (multi-window support isnt very good), but notepad++ on bottles opens slowly, so I want to avoid it too. (I also thought about emacs and nvim, but they are kinda scary and probably not for me.)
As I said in another comment, I will probably try once more to convert to prism.
Hmm, about proton-ge on lutris, for me lutris only shows wine-ge-proton and lutris versions of wine. Should I install it manually or something?
Lastly, thanks for the guide! I hadnt found that one.
I’m not exactly sure how it works with flatpak versions, but for native Steam+Lutris, you install it with this and Lutris picks it up automatically, as far as I remember. Probably need to allow the flatpack to see the installation directory or put it in Lutris runners altogether instead of Steam directory.
Helix is very similar to Emacs and vim/nvim, but a lot easier to set up. Tried all of them but with Helix it just clicked for me.