League of Legends does work but it's painful. I use an AUR package called leagueoflegends-git which was the only way I could get it to work on my setup.
https://leagueoflinux.org/ has been invaluable. It used to be a subreddit but it's been made private since the API debacle.
Well, painful for me. I tried Lutris, Bottles and native Wine and none worked. I played around with wine-lol for a bit too but the AUR package was the one that got it working.
Yeah, I used Lutris a couple years ago and it worked pretty well. I don’t like League much, but it worked well enough for my friend to play a few games with me to show me how to play.
As others said, it looks like the issue is the startup script expects bash shell, but Debian defaults to dash as its default shell. If you’re running these scripts directly, run them like this instead:
Seems like Stardew Valley is built against an old version that isn’t shipped with most distros anymore. In fact, based on the forum posts, I’d be surprised if you could actually get it to work on Ubuntu anymore.
I’m going to pin that for later but the “Don’t break Debian” mantra instantly came to mind, even more when I have a laptop with Mint running the game with no issues.
At some point, the game designer will have to update the game, or it will be lost for newer systems.
If you have an AMD GPU: Pretty much any distro that would come up in any “best linux distro of 2023” video.
If you have an nVidia GPU: Ubuntu or Linux Mint (or probably any debian based distro?). You are going to want to make sure you use the proprietary drivers from nVidia, not the nouveau drivers. I suggest Ubuntu and Mint because they have a nice GUI to handle this and you don’t have to run any extra steps. If you don’t mind a bit more work, Fedora and its derivatives is really seamless and, honestly, seems less likely to break whenever you do update those drivers.
If you have an Intel GPU: I am so sorry.
In all cases? You are probably playing most of your games through Steam and Proton. So Steam itself handles almost all issues outside of drivers. There are ideological (and, to a limited degree, technical) reasons to prefer one distro over another. But Steam/Proton really makes most of that irrelevant for gaming use. If you have other uses (beyond browsing the internet and whatever) then you may need to do more research. But, for gaming, your big issue is the proprietary drivers (if you need them).
It is a huge database for all games available on steam. So far, no one has made any reviews, but if you get it working, please write there how (you can include --start-options, drivers, distro etc.). Even if it is not working, write that and what you tried already. This way other people can spend more time on trying to get it working without doing the same steps all over again.
Also, it might be worth checking out in a few days when more people have added their workarounds and comments. Usually, this takes 1-2 weeks.
Hey, so the game is installed and I just played through some of the demo. And I posted on ProtonDB but it seems the post will take some time before it appears there. Cheers!
Do you have a secondary monitor? How do you handle sleep? Using laptop? How do you close your lid and get everything to hibernate/sleep? Those are my biggest gripes right now
Two monitors do work (second display is my tv), I tried it couple of times - just worked,but maybe I need to retest.
Currently I have stationary pc. But ten years ago closing lid worked for me on laptop. I think arch wiki has good guidance about this topic. It was not a plug and play experience for sure.
The problem solves reverting a commit and building Mesa with that change. If I do that I will have to rebuild Mesa everytime I want to update. That doesn’t sound like a solution for me.
Updates might be the culprit. Next to “play” in Lutris there’s a dropdown menu with “show logs” - try that and see why it fails.
Anyway, you should just try installing the game on your Linux partition. I don’t remember the details now, but using Wine with games on NTFS partitions used to be discouraged.
I use it for my servers and for remotely programming for over a decade. Using it on a desktop setup for work or games? Fuck no!
It’s my criticism of the Linux community: They don’t understand what “being productive” really means. I need to do work during the day, and produce results. I don’t have time to deal with my docking station not working, monitors settings breaking, and tinker with them every day… not because I can’t, but because I SHOULDN’T NEED TO.
It was cool when I was a teenager… now I need to make money.
As frustrating as it sounds. On windows and mac, literally plug and play. Every time I get the exact same setup. On Linux… dear Lord… every day a different problem and a different tinker until I swore that I’m done, and went back to remote use of Linux. Linux terminal is perfect, and that’s probably all I’ll need. Linux desktop through VNC, if ever.
Random breakage and weird behavior is why I stopped using Windows at home. On so many machines, I’ve seen the Start menu just stop functioning… or what’s up with the system trying to update the video drivers to the version dated 1968 (the year of Intel’s founding)? Nagging me (again?!) to change my web browser to Edge… Is your browser compliant to web standards this time, Microsoft? I still don’t want to use it.
Users are taught to fear Linux “because you might have to use the command line!” when in Windows you need to use brain-melting Powershell commands like
You pay for Windows, but the privacy terms make it clear that it’s Microsoft’s computer, not yours, yet you have to fix it yourself when things spontaneously break. If I manage to break Linux (by my own actions), at least I feel like I’m learning a bit in the process of fixing it.
• 1) I’m disillusioned with and sick of Windows. I’ve been in there since the days of XP and 7, back then those systems could take a crapload of abuse from my young clueless arse prone to downloading hundreds of malware, yet still be functioning largely flawlessy. Hell, even Vista and 8 were still quite resilient, and I say this as someone who used Vista for 2 years. Meanwhile, Windows 10 completely falls apart if I so much as look at it wrong, and I never had a W10 installation last longer than 6 months without falling apart with bizarre bug after bizarre bug (such as leaving me completely unable to open any image files) - and this is without my past proneness to getting malware. I don’t have the patience for that anymore, and then 11 comes in adding ads to the start menu and I just can’t anymore.
• 2) I’ve come to appreciate how Linux handles some things better - mostly with regards to Flatpaks and their self-containment making it less risky to run some things and easier to keep track of what I have installed. I find it’s also easier to deal with backups on Linux than Windows, especially with Kinoite (and I heard Tumbleweed also does a good job at it with snapper, too). In general I feel safer when using Linux, but on Windows I’m always paranoid about downloading a virus again - and with how brittle 10 is…
• 3) I don’t really like monopolies and don’t like the idea of Microsoft becoming basically synonymous with computers (and Apple isn’t any better).
It’s not perfect, mind you, and I do still feel many frustrations with Linux (I had to deal with Steam stopping working for no reason lately, but at least I could rollback to an earlier version), but I’ve genuinely not had much better luck with 10 at this point.
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