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Is this some form of wine-wrapping? Or do these people code the windows emulation themselves? All of these on-top-of-wine solutions are always a cat and mouse

Is this some form of wine-wrapping? Or do these people code the windows emulation themselves? All of these on-top-of-wine solutions are always a cat and mouse chase when a game or app is updated. You end up with several days to weeks and sometimes eternity to get some configuration fix

hsbauauvhabzb 1y ago
Or be like me, and get Counterstrike almost working, but with some show stopping bug, continually for a decade, before giving up gaming for good only for steam Linux to be released.
- modzu 1y ago
  if it makes you feel any better i doubt cs runs on steam Linux
  - Svip 1y ago
    Considering that Valve has a native Linux release for Counter Strike (as well as all their other titles), I doubt you looked much into this.
    - modzu 1y ago
      yeah to be fair i last looked 5 years ago.. how did they resolve anticheat? last i tried VAC was kind of a showstopper. if its evolved thats awesome
      - hsbauauvhabzb 1y ago
        I think they basically just gave up. From what I hear VAC is a bit of a joke.
  - dminik 1y ago
    Every Valve game released has a native Linux version. That includes every counter strike game.
    - hsbauauvhabzb 1y ago
      But that’s only occurred in the last ~5 years, no?
      - dminik 1y ago
        Kind of. Valve started actively porting their stuff in 2013, around the time Microsoft released Windows 8 and rumors started flying around that you'll only be able to use Windows Store to download apps. So, way over 5 years. But time flies by fast.
3eb7988a1663 1y ago
Count me as a person who could never figure out how to directly use WINE. All of the special configuration knowledge is seemingly spread across dozens of forum posts. Best case, you will find some obscure post which ends with, "Never mind, figured it out!" I have been using Bottles for a while now, and it has been painless to launch a few necessary Windows programs.
- ChocolateGod 1y ago
  I found back in the day the best documentation for how to run X with Wine was to read the lutris source for that app. Did it for Overwatch
ez8 1y ago
I think so, I mean it's called Bottles. It looks like a GUI for Wine that doesn't give Wine enough credit for doing the real work. I have a feeling it just runs Wine. https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles/tree/main/bottles/backend/wine https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles/tree/main/bottles/bac...
preisschild 1y ago
The Bottles Flatpak uses the Wine flatpak as its base, which means it should be relatively soon up to date with the latest wine version https://flathub.org/apps/org.winehq.Wine https://flathub.org/apps/org.winehq.Wine

hsbauauvhabzb 1y ago

Or be like me, and get Counterstrike almost working, but with some show stopping bug, continually for a decade, before giving up gaming for good only for steam Linux to be released.

modzu 1y ago
if it makes you feel any better i doubt cs runs on steam Linux
- Svip 1y ago
  Considering that Valve has a native Linux release for Counter Strike (as well as all their other titles), I doubt you looked much into this.
  - modzu 1y ago
    yeah to be fair i last looked 5 years ago.. how did they resolve anticheat? last i tried VAC was kind of a showstopper. if its evolved thats awesome
    - hsbauauvhabzb 1y ago
      I think they basically just gave up. From what I hear VAC is a bit of a joke.
- dminik 1y ago
  Every Valve game released has a native Linux version. That includes every counter strike game.
  - hsbauauvhabzb 1y ago
    But that’s only occurred in the last ~5 years, no?
    - dminik 1y ago
      Kind of. Valve started actively porting their stuff in 2013, around the time Microsoft released Windows 8 and rumors started flying around that you'll only be able to use Windows Store to download apps. So, way over 5 years. But time flies by fast.

3eb7988a1663 1y ago

Count me as a person who could never figure out how to directly use WINE. All of the special configuration knowledge is seemingly spread across dozens of forum posts. Best case, you will find some obscure post which ends with, "Never mind, figured it out!" I have been using Bottles for a while now, and it has been painless to launch a few necessary Windows programs.

ChocolateGod 1y ago
I found back in the day the best documentation for how to run X with Wine was to read the lutris source for that app. Did it for Overwatch

ez8 1y ago

I think so, I mean it's called Bottles. It looks like a GUI for Wine that doesn't give Wine enough credit for doing the real work. I have a feeling it just runs Wine. https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles/tree/main/bottles/backend/wine https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles/tree/main/bottles/bac...

preisschild 1y ago

The Bottles Flatpak uses the Wine flatpak as its base, which means it should be relatively soon up to date with the latest wine version https://flathub.org/apps/org.winehq.Wine https://flathub.org/apps/org.winehq.Wine