Seriously though. It never works for me.

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    It is speaking to you in an Eldritch language that none of our puny minds can comprehend. When the dreams begin though, then you will know, THEN you will begin to understand…

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    Yeah, I use wine, proton, and Lutris’ take on Proton-GE (for winecfg and wineconsole) . I usually get it to work with one of those three, but some programs are just so damn stubborn.

    Especially unity games can be a PIA with their weird font and dll requirements, causing artifacts or bugged screens at seemingly random times.

    Either that, or im just terrible at using wine. :D

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      I’ve tried getting SketchUp to work on Wine, what a hell hole. There was a report stating it was supposed to run well, but I’m completely lost when it comes to wine. BTW, do you have any resources? I know all of those technologies (wine tricks, bottles, proton, playonlinux) are based on wine, so what’s the difference? That’s how zero I know of it.

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      I’ve been considering it. Right now I’m on Pop!_OS as I use a System76 laptop. It’s based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS which is pretty old at this point. Which distro would you recommend for best WINE preconfigured and up to date install?

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        Nobara is fedora with some gaming spesific tweaks and latest kernel and drivers, it works really well for me and is from a reputable person (Glorious eggroll creator of proton ge and a red hat employee). I have been having a blast with it for almost half a year now.

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          One more question, thank you by the way for helping. Would Nobara be a bit bloated for me considering I don’t really game or even have an Nvidia card? I just use an Intel 13th Gen i7 with onboard graphics. Would a different distro with wine preconfigured be better without all that extra stuff like steam/Nvidia compat pre installed? If so which would you recommend?

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            nvidia compat and steam aren’t pre installed (unless you use the nvidia iso) but you are given an option to install it on the wellcome pop up probably same for steam. You could try to install wine while looking at a tutorial on any distro or just install lutris or bottles on your distro and use wine trough that

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            systemwide, click on .exe and go brr version is on 8.20 staging at the moment, but I am running mod organizer 2 with wine 9 using lutris (bottles would work too). I even added a .desktop shortcut for it using lutris so I can open it by searching it like a native linux program.

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      Bottles, like most related things, is based on WINE. DLL hell is real. Source: Been there, done that, gave up after an hour (not counting installing Bottles, which came with its own problems unfortunately.)

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        Yeah, I know. There isn’t much context, so it could’ve been wine and winetricks UX, which people do have trouble with sometimes.