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[–] DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 37 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Given I'm actively avoiding modern multiplayer games for more reasons than just the fact that they pretty much all have rootkit DRM (I know kernel-level anticheats have a different target than traditional DRM, but they're functionally DRM so they count as DRM to me), and one of the few games I have left which were unplayably broken on Proton work now (Civ3, still has audio issues that to my knowledge can't be corrected for non-destructively, but the black-map issue is now fixed, at least on my end using proton-cachyos), I have no plans on running Windows again any time soon, not even in a VM.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Bottles.

There's a flatpak called Bottles that does a pretty decent job of setting up a containerized Windows /WINE environment, if you have some program or game you can't get to work quite right by chucking it into Lutris or Steam.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

But I can't be bothered to play windows games

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 hours ago

I mostly use it for dev tools that only barely technically support linux, or just don't at all.

That and uh... lets call them homebrew game decompression executables.

... yeah... yep.