It would be great some kind of sticker or banner by release that says “Steam Deck/Linux verified”, maybe the users themselves are the ones who comment if it is compatible or not and the banner is added.
Please please prioritize Empress releases that usually work on Linux and on Windows, and a Windows user would not see the slightest difference.
I mean, if you go to Steamrip and download FH6 for SOME REASON it doesn’t run on Linux but on Windows, but if you download FH6 directly from the Empress Telegraph it works on both Linux and Windows, and Windows users don’t notice a difference
I’m not in the Empress telegram. Where can I find her releases? I genuinely haven’t seen them much, and I mostly play old and/or indie titles because of lower resource usage.
PSA, FitGirl and Dodi setups do fail during installations on Proton and Lutris Wine, but if you were to run them using vanilla Wine they (generally) work perfectly. Just open a terminal in the downloaded folder and enter wine ./setup.exe. Just make sure you set the correct installation folder (e.g. Z:/home/username/games)
Update: the latest FitGirl setup for Cyberpunk 2077 didn’t work on either
Thats pretty much the entire point of this, they stated these are all scene releases. So fitgirl et al etc.
For some masochistic reason they sometimes come rar’d, iso’d, and custom windows based unpacker which is all really unnecessary and creates more points of potential failure for the linux gamer.
LinuzRules releases have linux .sh based unpackers, but even those arent guaranteed to work and can get stuck. I’d much rather just get the complete uncompressed files.
Tl;dr Scene releases use unpackers which often fail and multiple levels of unnecessary compression.
Without exaggeration I have had to download a zipped tar, that contained a rar split into ~100 parts, which contained an iso which contained a custom installer that extracted the compressed game files.
Seems to be overkill.
With an unpacked release I can pick and choose what to download, if it’s on a newer patch level I can just point it at an existing folder and it will just download the difference. And of course I don’t have to jump through the stupid installation hoops.
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