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this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2025
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Nice, I was just reading about using Optiscaler 's fakenvapi for spoofing DLSS support to inject FSR4 for Expedition 33 on my Radeon card. Extremely useful.
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Most of my games are on GoG.
what's the point in having bottles, lutris, faugus, unu gui, and heroic all at the same time? i just use heroic and steam for every game other than minecraft
Depends on the situation, but I've had a game work on bottles where it didn't quite on steam. It's slightly closer to running a full vm than proton alone is, and can help with dependencies in rare cases.
IMO, the best and quickest way to determine what I actually want to use and to learn rapidly is by using everything I can find and then tossing the redundants.
Faugus is just a GUI front end of umu launcher which is only CLI.
I pirate games and also own a lot of old games on disc so I can't only use Heroic/Steam.
You can launch most games through Steam if you "add non steam game to library"
I wrote a vod renamer app that also automatically logs me into SC2 after closing the blizzard app's ad.
What about non-gaming software? I do some video editing for work occasionally and am often handed projects started in Premiere. They want it back in Premiere, so I can’t switch my main desktop over because of this.
I'd still consider myself new to Linux keep in mind, but from what I understand Premiere won't work (well enough) with WINE. Adobe does a lot of undocumented Windows GUI fuckery was the tl;dr that I recall.
Winboat with GPU passthrough (it's QEMU under the hood) I guess but at that point it's so much effort to get working under a virtual machine that you'd have to consider dual booting instead. I mean either way, you're still using Windows :(
Hmmm interesting.
What about the Mac version? And Mac software in general? I’m also new to Linux (and not a programmer), but wouldn’t that be easier to get running considering Mac OS is Unix based?
Sorry I kind of feel like I’m high-jacking your post, but it got me thinking and I’m probably too lazy to ever post about it myself.
One idea but it's paid software and the compatibility list doesn't give me a lot of confidence: https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/?name=adobe%3BcurPos%3D100
Instead I think you'd be using QEMU/KVM still and then Virt Manager for a macOS VM. Longer process, have not attempted myself. Same issue with needing GPU acceleration: Need to set up a GPU Passthrough. Similar problem sans dual booting being viable.
high-jacking your post
I don't care, this thread is to vacuum up scattered knowledge pretty much. There's no complete guide to any of this anywhere that I know of so I'm already learning of a bunch of new programs to use here to make my life easier.
I've never done this mind you, but some quick searching yields this.
And if that link doesn't work (it's a redlib fork), here is the original reddit link.
Either way, read through the comments as well as there's some good insights there.
Ultimately the post points to a guide.
Hopefully this helps.
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