What steps, if any, do you guys take on the linux distribution of your choice to play visual novels?

I, personally, set the following in my .bashrc

alias vn='env WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 wine start '

so I can just type vn gameExecutable.exe and usually just have the game work.

For the games I’ve had for a while, I have .desktop entries in my $XDG_DATA_HOME/applications directory with more specific commands as needed.

If you guys have any other tricks up your sleeves, please feel free to share them here.

  • @nrab@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    Honestly I’ve never had any issues with just using wine and ever since Valve announced proton I just add the .exe to Steam and run it that way

    • neo (he/him)OPMAEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      I vaguely remember having issues with a few games, but I don’t have any of the details. I think getting japanese locale generated fixed most things for me.