cross-posted from: https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/5060
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.exeand usually just have the game work.For the games I’ve had for a while, I have .desktop entries in my
$XDG_DATA_HOME/applicationsdirectory with more specific commands as needed.If you guys have any other tricks up your sleeves, please feel free to share them here.
I don’t play visual novels, but I do have some experience with getting things to run on Linux.
This guy has the right idea. https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/comment/15266
Wine is good and all, but ever since proton became a thing it’s been a breeze with little to no troubleshooting for me.
Add Non-Steam Games to Library: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/4B8B-9697-2338-40EC
If you’re on Linux then I assume you already have proton enabled for all games by default, if for some reason you don’t and only play games that natively support linux, you can make a specific game use proton instead.
(I wasn’t able to find a guide that was specific enough to this so I’ll just type it here)
Go to your game, click the gear icon to the far right of the "Play’ button.
“Properties”
“Compatibility”
Check ✓ “Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool”
Pick the latest version of proton, short of experimental.
If it doesn’t work I’ve had luck with just using a slighty older version of proton. (I.e. Proton 8.0-2 -> Proton 7.0-6)
If that doesn’t work you can often find popular workarounds by searching for the game on https://www.protondb.com/
If you already know all this I apologize, haha
I know, but it’s entirely possible someone else might not, so it’s still useful.
Got any visual novel recommendations btw?
Check out @neopolitan@pleroma.comfysnug.space 's post from yesterdasy https://burggit.moe/post/15652.
Sweet, thank you.
Oh boy I remember wrestling with wine and all the locale stuff when I was trying out Linux for the first time. Thanks for sharing.
i on the other hand use windows & use WSL for linux, like reverse Wine and just as shitty.
I know that some VN engines are open source and probably work fine on Linux. For VNs using those engines, I wonder how many of them would work as expected if you simply replace the Windows binaries with Linux ones. Of course, those with custom or closed-source engines that don’t have a F/OSS counterpart would still require Wine to run. :/