Bazzite

[Fhergul]

Anyone tried running P99 on Bazzite? Thought about giving it a shot.

[loramin]

If I understand it correctly, Bazzite is just a wrapper around Steam and Lutris, so you don't need it ... and I'm not sure you need Lutris either ... so really you could probably just install Steam.

And really you don't even need Steam, what you need is Proton (which is a set of enhancements to WINE that the Steam team made to let it emulate Windows games better). For further info see this guide or this (possibly confusing/with outdated bits) wiki guide.

[Fhergul]

I specifically asked about Bazzite because I still want to have desktop functionality on my PC and after watching some videos of people installing and using it, I thought I would give it a shot if it would work with P99

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Fhergul [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I specifically asked about Bazzite because I still want to have desktop functionality on my PC

To clarify: nothing I discussed (Bazzite or installing WINE/Proton directly) will stop you from having desktop functionality [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Quick Linux sidebar: On Windows, there is one way to install everything: you download it from a website (and hope it's safe), then you execute that download, which puts a bunch of files onto your computer (wherever it wants, but hopefully mostly in the Program Files folder). Those files let you run that program ... and hopefully don't do anything else.

To the Linux folks, all that sounds like a recipe for getting a virus: why not just keep all software in one central place, and install it in the same place on your computer, so you know what you're getting? The only problem is that those central places don't want to change constantly, so they often have out-of-date versions of stuff. Some people solve this by using a tool like Bazzite to install the latest versions of things for you.

But the thing is, most repositories already have a "development" version of WINE, which might not be the absolute latest version, but it's a lot closer. Usually that version runs EQ just fine (without Proton even). And if it doesn't, it's not hard to install a newer WINE (or Proton).

For instance, I run Mint, which has WINE 9. EQ runs just fine for me. But if it didn't, and I needed the latest WINE, I could always install WINE 10 by just adding WINE's repository (https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/.../Debian-Ubuntu) to my package manager (it takes less than a minute).

So all I was trying to say is, if it were me, I'd try your distribution's stable version of WINE first: it's entirely possible EQ will "just work, out of the box". If it doesn't, try switching to the development version of WINE. If that doesn't work, try the latest version of WINE.

If none of that works, maybe try other stuff like Proton and Bazzite, and whatever's in that "how do I make EQ work on a Steam Deck (ie. Linux computer)" thread ... but why start with the complex stuff if the simple stuff might work?