A few years ago, almost out of despair, I moved away from Debian in order to be
able to play a few games natively. On those days, the main concern with running
games on Debian came mostly from unavailable dependencies or older, incompatible
versions. Fast forward today, returning to Debian, all installers from GOG run
smoothly, with no error, but many games report errors on launching. So, as per
the title, what crazy voodoo magic is cast upon Debian to create Ubuntu, Mint
and others, making those derivatives gaming-capable but their base distro not?
Can someone enlighten me on this, please? Out of many games I tried, I managed
to run three: Kingdom Rush and the Frontiers sequel and Martial Law. Other
titles failed miserably, including Desperados, Eschalon and even Stardew Valley.
Because it’s useful/required info: system - AMD Athlon II x2 250 - 8GB RAM -
GeForce G210 It’s a very reliable work horse, with maxed out memory. The GPU
proprietary drivers are no longer available; running nouveau. When launching
from the console, I get this report (example from Stardew Valley): start.sh
[http://start.sh]: 7: Bad substitution start.sh [http://start.sh]: 9: source:
not found start.sh [http://start.sh]: 12: get_gameinfo: not found start.sh
[http://start.sh]: 13: get_gameinfo: not found start.sh [http://start.sh]: 14:
get_gameinfo: not found start.sh [http://start.sh]: 29: define_option: not found
start.sh [http://start.sh]: 32: standard_options: not found
I enjoyed the exchange of ideas here and the way things were described and debated. Made me happy to be on Lemmy.