An even better way, if you have powerful enough hardware, of running Windows XP apps on Linux is to use a virtual machine (VM) program such asOracle's VirtualBoxorVMware Player. The problem with these is that they don't run well on older XP systems with limited resources. If CrossOver...
I hope that this will be the beginning of the end of the domination that Microshaft Windows has so long had over PC gaming. Gaming was always a major hurdle for people considering a transition from Windows to Linux or Mac. Most of my Steam library is multiplatform because I was never wil...
When you open Steam on Linux, look through your library. Some games have a blueInstallbutton even if they are not listed as Linux-compatible in the store. Those games are cleared to run under Proton, and playing them should be as easy as playing PC games in Windows. In my case, bothN...
There are Linux equivalents to most Windows applications, but they sometimes do things differently or don’t replicate all the functionality of their Windows equivalent. This can flummox newcomers to Linux. Sometimes, especially with games, there simply are no Linux equivalents. Bottles makes running ...
Try Gaming On Linux! I was very delighted to see that Cyberpunk 2077 was running so good on Ubuntu, even better than on my Windows PC, which couldn't pass the ~45 FPS mark on all settings turned up to the max, without Ray Tracing. ...
Wine 6.9 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows applications and games on Linux and other Unix-like platforms. Wine 6.9 continues the work on converting their libraries to portable executable (PE) format with the WPCAP library now bein...
Steam Play allows Linux gamers to use many different compatibility layers like Proton for running Windows games but Luxtorpeda instead makes games use an available native Linux game engine.
A new release of DXVK is available for running Direct3D 9/10/11 games over the Vulkan API that is most notably used by Steam Play (Proton) for allowing many Windows games to run gracefully on Linux. With DXVK 1.9 there is basic support for various sub-sampled YUV texture formats for sup...
On a Windows machine, download OriginThinSetup.exe from their site. You need to do this because viewing the site from a Linux machine doesn't give the Windows download option. (Alternatively, RedditorGGG_246informs these are also available atwinehq) ...
I'm heartened to see 20 year old BBS Door Games come to live on Windows 10. I'm going to see if my 10 and 12 year olds get a kick out of some of these adventure games. Finally, and slightly related, try "curl wttr.in/portland" in a large WSL (Linux) console. Lovely. I lov...