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 :)
Good luck
Check out bottles, there you can easily run your cracked games
Is bottle different from wine ? And thank you for suggesting it. I’ll look it up.
No, bottles is just a program that enables you to use wine much more comfortably.
Wine isn’t super hard to use, but it’s annoying. So stuff like Bottles and Lutris exist, both basically do the same. They give you both a GUI and much easier accessable settings for the wine-prefixes. Those prefixes basically are just folders with the faked windows stuff in it.
Lutris is made for games but can be used for programs too. Bottles is made out of the box for both games and programs, has a much more streamlined interface and workflow and lets you easily create new “bottles” (bottle is just the given name for a wine prefix) for each of your games / programs.
Putting everything in their own bottle / prefix is really handy because it allows you to modify the prefix for each application without ruining it for another. If you need a specific version of a certain .dll file for one game but not for others, you can just install that .dll file in the specific bottle / prefix for that one specific game, and the other games just use their own bottles / prefixes with the default .dll for example.
Very handy.
Bottles is usually more recommended because it’s more streamlined… Also the dev of lutris seems quite toxic and isn’t good with making friends in the scene :D
I ain’t gonna say it’s as easy as Windows but I personally haven’t had too much trouble running cracked games using the Lutris launcher.
Lutris also lets you show logs by right click on the game, So if you get an error while playing or loading it gives you something to look up.
Also you can ask for help over at /c/linuxcracksupport@lemmy.world
Welcome to the club!
Thank you. For suggesting the lemmy group. Is there any youtuber for learning linux mint stuff and cracked games Linux stuff?
I don’t know about Linux Mint specifically but if you want to learn about Linux in general watch Distrotube, TheLinuxExperiment, TheLinuxCast, Brodie Robertson. And If you really want to go nerdy watch Luke Smith and Mental Outlaw.
Its the same as windows but the amount of OS specific help youll find is lower since less people use it. It helps to figure out which version of linux your distro is based on and look for help with that instead to broaden the results.
For example on my popos station I usually search for Ubuntu help, and on my endeavouros system I would search arch help.
The good thing about linux though is its all the same ideas just packages slightly different, kinda like learning slang.
Start with the terminal, how to open it and where it is, then how to move around the directory (usually CD, with a few modifiers for moving up or down), list directory contents so you can “see” them, and manage it with removing or touching (creating) objects or folders.
Then figure out how to install packages, this should have a mint specific page for it though. Every dostro has a few things they explicitly explain and package mangement is almost always one of them.
They will likely list a few different methods, test each of them out with some apps you planned on installing already, or just find safe test ones to add and remove.
If you have time though you can figure this stuff out as each hurdle appears, rather than speed running them, but this is how I would approach a new linux distro at first.
Also dont be afraid to scrap it and try something else if you decide its not working for you. I ran bazzite for a week before changing to endeavouros and I’m very happy I did.
Edit to add: for crack specific stuff, honestly there doesnt seem to be any sort of segregating the legal and non-legal communities when it comes to linux. Feel free to look or ask in the same places you would ask for legitimate support, but do be careful you dont get into the habit of blindly trusting any script posted in a YouTube video.
Just for future reference, you have the link almost perfect but instead of /c/ use ! for communities and for users. This will link to the intended resource while keeping the user on their instance.
So like !linuxcracksupport@lemmy.world for a community or @HouseWolf@lemm.ee for a user. Fwiw I’m on the Test Flight version of Arctic and it now autocompletes as you’re typing those formatted links.
You’ll probably want to use Proton. Being based on Wine, it’s not an emulator. It’s a native Linux implementation of various Windows APIs. One way to do it is Lutris.
Ok got it.
- bottles
- proton
- lutris
- wine
I’ll try one game with most different crack with each and see which works the best. Thanks for the suggestions.
I didn’t have much luck with Bottles in the past, but this is entirely anecdotal.
FWIW bottles and lutris are launchers which will preconfigure and run your games in wine or proton which are the underlying translation layers.
I just switched my gaming computer over to Nobara yesterday and got all of my gog and non DRM games running in Lutris very easily. Two I had issues with were Warframe and the Plutonium launcher, Both ended up having lutris setup scripts that fixed my problem. Also wine/proton is not emulation so it does not have the same overhead, It will use your full GPU as windows would.
Isn’t it good to have your gpu used more and efficiently?? Doesn’t it make games run better?
