I have decided to switch to Linux Mint from windows. I don’t use computer for work that much. And for my personal use I’m switching to Linux Mint. I have heard a lot about it. So giving it a try. I know about emulating windows in linux to play window games. But how do you use cracks and stuff?? Does emulating also access my 100% graphics card or less? I want to know about all these. Please people in my condition help. Thanks in advance :)
I would try to keep Windows, go for dual boot. Then, from Linux, convert the partitions to a VM disk with qemu ( https://superuser.com/questions/1389103/windows-10-uefi-physical-to-kvm-libvirt-virtual#1400203 ) and finally use that, so that all the games installations are kept. This way, many other things will be available too, like browser’s history and so on. Making backups is cumbersome, I always tend to forget something. Of course, this alternative process is riddled with gotchas. But worth to try.
Good luck
Everyone else has already replied to your question, but take a tip from me. If you have an old PC or low-spec system, dual-boot Linux Mint alongside Windows. Run games on Windows natively because Wine always yields fewer FPS than Windows.
Proof: I get around 45-55 FPS in a game called Dread Templar on Proton, but on Windows, I get 60 FPS with same settings.
I’d agree with the recommendation of Lutris and Bottles. Just install the two and see what you like and which works best. I’ve heard Lutris is pretty good. And both tools handle most of the underlying stuff for you, like managing Wine and Proton.
There are quite some guides/tutorials/youtube videos on how to use them.
Additionally: look for johncena141’s releases. They’re obnoxiously packed (you got to have DwarFS, annoying to install in Mint*), but he’ll typically provide native versions of the game if possible, and when it needs an emu layer he also bundles it with the WINE version that it works the best with.
*to be honest I use his releases mostly to extract the contents.
Yup. Like, I get what he’s trying to do, if people don’t need to extract the contents of the release they’re more likely to keep sharing it. It would be reasonable if DwarFS was installed by default in most distros, Mint for example doesn’t even have it in the repos*. Still, he shares a huge collection of games, so it’s still worth to check if he has something you want.
*might be relevant for the OP. In Mint here’s what I did: I downloaded DwarFS binaries and put them in some random dir (I’ll call it /randomdir). Then I edited my .bashrc file and included the following lines:
undorf () {
mkdir "$1".extracted
/randomdir/bin/dwarfsextract -i "$1" -o "$1".extracted
}
Then when I download his releases, I navigate to the dir where the dwarfs is, plop a terminal, and write undorf. Boom, extracted without too much fuss.
