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What software tools do you use that are gaming related? (piefed.social)
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Anything to make gaming easier, especially non-Steam. I'll list what I know of so far:

Bottles.

Faugus Launcher. UMU-Launcher GUI, which is kinda like Bottles but for proton specifically instead of WINE. It's early dev and lacks functional GameScope for now, but Bottles I noticed really doesn't like me using proton so this was an alternative I found.

This is a unified launcher for Windows games on Linux. It is essentially a copy of the Steam Runtime Tools and Steam Linux Runtime that Valve uses for Proton, with some modifications made so that it can be used outside of Steam.

MangoHUD of course.

Heroic Games Launcher.

Lutris.

I have Itch.io's launcher too.

ProtonUp Qt - grab various versions of WINE or proton for all these applications.

Winboat - Trying some experimental fuckery to use Vortex but I've not got that far yet, just got Winboat itself set up so far. edit: It worked surprisingly, modded Skyrim Special Edition, see my other comments here.

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[–] dgdft@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Since no one else has said it yet, ZFS is underrated for gaming. Compression saves considerable disk space if you have a big library, you can stripe HDDs for better performance, and snapshotting makes backups a breeze.

[–] bollybing@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Why not btrfs?

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago

(not the poster above)

btrfs is the only fs I've ever seen people have issues with, so I didn't even want to try (though, I do recognize that that is just personal bias). I also don't need the backup/rollback features.

Happily running xfs.

[–] dgdft@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Been happy on ZFS since before btrfs stabilized and worked out its kinks, so I can’t personally vouch for it — but nothing against it in theory :).