At this point, making something that doesn’t work using Wine or Proton is actually kind of an achievement, so congrats EA, you managed to fuck up both Origin and EA app. The actual game runs flawlessly, it’s the launchers that are all kinds of broken.
Why don’t you add some infos and steps you took for people who could need them?
EA is garbage software, don’t buy these games, always prefer used console versions or pirate.
Torrent edition worked flawlessly with no need to tinker at all. Just saying
Perhaps, not a fan of viruses though.
What viruses do you think you’re going to catch on a Linux host? Nobody is packing Linux viruses into torrents so they might affect the < 1% of people who download it.
I mostly pay for games, but this is a really dumb take.
Virus is just a program that tries to whatever its malicious intent is while being as minimal and portable as it gets. It it’s a ransomeare to encrypt all your data or a program that looks for passwords in your files, it can still be fairly successful when running through Wine. There is a chance through, that it assumes typical paths where Windows keeps files and if it never tries other drives than C, it will only affect Wine prefix and not your actual files.
You can run Bottles in Flatpak and cut out access to any of your files if you’re afraid it can be malicious
The idea that Linux is not susceptible to malware is a really dumb take, in my opinion. I work in security and see Linux machines get popped all the time. Also, wine is good enough that malware will run under it.
I’ve played the Sims on Linux before and haven’t had such severe issues with origin…
I’ve played the Sims on Linux before and haven’t had such severe issues with origin…
Out of curiosity I’ve looked it up on ProtonDB and there it says that EA Launcher regularly breaks on updates.
