Just use windows. it works.
why make life hard for yourself?

higgildypiggildy wrote on Mar 25^th, 2020 at 2:15pm:

The slash goes the wrong way.

Slackware 2.2, baby!

Tusktusk wrote on Mar 30^th, 2020 at 9:12am:

PlayOnLinux is key, the default Wine with Mint is hot steaming crap, PoL lets you use a newer version with little effort.

It depends on what you want to do with it, Mint's a decent consumer grade distro but you're not going to get the performance you would out of a techier distro.

but try Play on Linux on whatever distro you like, use a newer Wine version, and give it a spin. It's way easier than trying to compile from source a newer wine for just about any distro, you could be up and running in half an hour, and and if it sucks, no big deal.

And like I said, mine's a pretty beefy rig, so maybe it won't run well for everyone. I'm just saying what I use and that I'm happy with it.

Good luck, and if you want me to look up which version of wine I'm using say, but I've generally found any new-ish version works well.

I've actually been trying to get DDO installed on a Ubuntu box recently. Its not my main system, just one I built so I could learn the ropes on linux. I'll give PlayOnLinux a try, wine has turned into a gigantic headache(oweing mostly to pisspoor documentation - seriously, you linux-types want to know what makes switching over so hard? All your "guides" say "just do this!" without any indication of HOW.).

I won't touch steam with a 10 foot pool. Fuck steam. In the ass. With a serrated blade. If DDO requires steam to play, I won't play DDO.

My biggest headache is the guides like the one on winehq have helpful things like "check and make sure you have 32-bit Mesa libs and 32-bit Samba libs installed" and then provide zero hints as to how to actually DO that. I'll take a look at Lutris and see if that's any easier.

But yeah, if you're ever writing a basic linux how-to guide, be specific. Don't assume the guy reading it is already a linux expert. This is the number-one reason why linux is so unapproachable. The Raspberry Pi community is actually making great strides; in fact it was a series of pi projects that gave me the confidence to fire up a fullblown linux desktop. The commands make sense when you learn them, but you can't learn them if no guide provides them.

Kistilan wrote on Jun 24^th, 2020 at 11:37pm:


Go fuck yourself, tard.

Technomage wrote on Jun 25^th, 2020 at 2:24pm:


LOL!!!!!!!!!!!