Anything to make gaming easier, especially non-Steam. I’ll list what I know of so far:

Bottles.

Faugus Launcher. UMU-Launcher GUI, which is kinda like Bottles but for proton specifically instead of WINE. It’s early dev and lacks functional GameScope for now, but Bottles I noticed really doesn’t like me using proton so this was an alternative I found.

This is a unified launcher for Windows games on Linux. It is essentially a copy of the Steam Runtime Tools and Steam Linux Runtime that Valve uses for Proton, with some modifications made so that it can be used outside of Steam.

MangoHUD of course.

Heroic Games Launcher.

Lutris.

I have Itch.io’s launcher too.

ProtonUp Qt - grab various versions of WINE or proton for all these applications.

Winboat - Trying some experimental fuckery to use Vortex but I’ve not got that far yet, just got Winboat itself set up so far. edit: It worked surprisingly, modded Skyrim Special Edition, see my other comments here.

  • Mongostein@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    What about non-gaming software? I do some video editing for work occasionally and am often handed projects started in Premiere. They want it back in Premiere, so I can’t switch my main desktop over because of this.

    • BurgerBaron@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I’d still consider myself new to Linux keep in mind, but from what I understand Premiere won’t work (well enough) with WINE. Adobe does a lot of undocumented Windows GUI fuckery was the tl;dr that I recall.

      Winboat with GPU passthrough (it’s QEMU under the hood) I guess but at that point it’s so much effort to get working under a virtual machine that you’d have to consider dual booting instead. I mean either way, you’re still using Windows :(

      • Mongostein@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Hmmm interesting.

        What about the Mac version? And Mac software in general? I’m also new to Linux (and not a programmer), but wouldn’t that be easier to get running considering Mac OS is Unix based?

        Sorry I kind of feel like I’m high-jacking your post, but it got me thinking and I’m probably too lazy to ever post about it myself.

        • BurgerBaron@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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          2 days ago

          One idea but it’s paid software and the compatibility list doesn’t give me a lot of confidence: https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/?name=adobe%3BcurPos%3D100

          Instead I think you’d be using QEMU/KVM still and then Virt Manager for a macOS VM. Longer process, have not attempted myself. Same issue with needing GPU acceleration: Need to set up a GPU Passthrough. Similar problem sans dual booting being viable.

          high-jacking your post

          I don’t care, this thread is to vacuum up scattered knowledge pretty much. There’s no complete guide to any of this anywhere that I know of so I’m already learning of a bunch of new programs to use here to make my life easier.

    • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I’ve never done this mind you, but some quick searching yields this.

      And if that link doesn’t work (it’s a redlib fork), here is the original reddit link.

      Either way, read through the comments as well as there’s some good insights there.

      Ultimately the post points to a guide.

      Hopefully this helps.