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.

  • @PublicLewdness@burggit.moeEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    Many visual novels I play already have a LInux version so I rarely have to do anything special. If they only have a Windows version then I use Heroic Games Launcher or Lutris to launch the game using Wine. if it’s on Steam then I sue Proton to launch the game.