In general, you don’t need to install or update DirectX since it’s implemented outside Wine through dxvk or vkd3d. For other components (e.g. .NET or Visual C++), you should use Winetricks to automate the process:

List available components:

WINEPREFIX=/path/to/game/prefix winetricks dlls list

To install a component (e.g. Visual C++ 2015):

WINEPREFIX=/path/to/game/prefix winetricks vcrun2015

Do not delete the thread if this answers your question.

This is my method for GOG and other offline installers.

To run the installer, I use GE-Proton9-27. Something happened with Wine 10 and some installers completely freeze after a few seconds. Wine 9 still works well enough.

Create a directory for the game’s prefix:

mkdir -p /path/to/game/prefix

Then run the installer with Proton (assuming you’ve installed GE-Proton into Steam’s compatibilitytools.d directory):

WINEPREFIX=/path/to/game/prefix ~/.local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d/GE-Proton9-27/files/bin/wine /path/to/setup.exe

Then install the games to the C: drive.

I like having my games installed outside the prefix (e.g. another directory mounted as the G: drive, or an absolute path in Z:), but for some reason, lettered drives other than C: are mounted as some kind of union filesystem where changes are only written into memory. If you want to have a game outside the prefix, you’ll still have to install it to C: and move the directory afterwards.

You’ll then have to set up a launcher to manage and launch the actual game. I recommend Faugus Launcher, but Heroic and Lutris are also options. The two most important fields to set are the prefix and the executable path. In Faugus and Lutris, you can set those paths when you add the game. Heroic creates a separate prefix by default, but you can set the prefix math manually in some sub-menu.

You can select the latest Proton (or GE-Proton) to run the games, downgrading to Wine 9 was only necessary for the installer.

PLEASE CRANK THE SILLY THING AROUND should not be as hilarious as it is

Skirt and programming socks. The skirt provides optimal airflow and the socks can be adjusted using a PID algorithm to achieve the desired thermal equilibrium.

Clanker equivalent of telling an angry spouse to stop overreacting.

storage: ZFS RAID2 array of three hundred free icloud accounts

I bet somebody’s been bored and/or psychotic enough to have done that, booted a Linux machine from it, and played DOOM on it.

Thigh-high socks

They’ve even put programmer socks behind subscriptions, world is a fuck

This worked perfectly, thanks a lot! I’ll update the main post.

I’ll try it as soon as I get home.

It makes sense, since Wine uses SDL2 to emulate XInput.

(edit) I’m cautiously optimistic. I’ve just tried this on my work PC (without SISR):

SDL_GAMECONTROLLER_IGNORE_DEVICES='0x28de/0x1304' wine control joy.cpl

…and XInput doesn’t detect the SC. It should still receive inputs from the emulated device since it uses different a different PID/VID.

Are there any good indie games on the world’s largest video game store? I dunno, are there any leafy trees in the Amazon?

From what I’ve been playing: Stardew Valley, Factorio, Vampire Survivors, Derail Valley, A Hat In Time, Project Wingman, Frostpunk 1 and 2, Portal 2 (technically self-published), Signalis. Voices Of The Void will eventually have a Steam release. All of those games work well on Linux.

Stakeholders. Journalists. The market. The ignorant public. They’re constructing a narrative to shield themselves and minimize the hit to their reputation when they stop offering lifetime license plans. The announcement won’t look nearly as damning if it contains a reference to the falling number of new lifetime customers, even if it omits the context of why that number has been falling.

From a purely profit-oriented perspective, no. They’re setting up a pretext to eliminate the lifetime license plan due to a lack of interest. No sane person would pay that kind of lump sum for the service (and the insane ones will bring in triple the revenue), so they’ll claim that there is no market for it. After that, they’re free to crank up the periodic subscription prices.

Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by profiteering opportunism.

Today I had to build and install an application using Crates. It recursively pulled 700 other packages and gave me a gut feeling comparable to testicular torsion. I don’t care how paranoid the community is, it only takes one careless maintainer to node-ipc or left-pad an entire dependency tree.

Yes, it’s recognised as a controller both in non-Steam games and in other applications like KDE Settings. It works just like any other controller with the usual, quasi-standard inputs (analog sticks, face buttons, etc). Steam support regarding non-Steam games:

Everything should work as intended if you have purchased and launched your game directly through Steam, but in many cases you will also be able to use the Controller with non-Steam games that run independently.

I’ve heard the argument that it is recognized as a KBM if you’re not on Steam.

If Steam isn’t running and there are no other games that capture the controller input, the SC enters “lizard mode” where it emulates mouse and certain keyboard inputs. The right touchpad becomes a mouse, the left touchpad becomes a scroll wheel, R2 is left click, L2 is right click, A is Enter, B is Escape; wev displays the correct input events. Lizard mode is disabled when you launch a game.

(edit) It sounds like this only works in Linux. Windows needs a separate utility to use the SC with non-Steam games.

(edit 2) This is what KDE reports:

It can detect the back buttons (Paddle 1-4) and the quick access menu (Miscellaneous). hid-recorder also shows that all other inputs are also available through the /dev/hidraw* device. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if someone released a standalone Steam Input emulator app within a few weeks.

That’s not true. If you don’t use Steam Input, you only lose the Steam-specific inputs, like the touchpads, gyro, grip sense, and back buttons. Otherwise it is pretty much equivalent to a modern Xbox controller:

• Two analog stick inputs
• Analog triggers (LT/RT)
• Digital bumpers and stick buttons (LB/RB, LS/RS)
• D-pad
• Face buttons
• Menu/select/guide buttons

I’ve played a lot of Project Wingman with it, and the TMR inputs are actually a massive improvement.

Get in the timeout box.

XDG Desktop files are a mostly standardized way to integrate individual programs into the desktop. For example, a desktop file in /usr/share/applications or ~/.local/share/applications can add programs to the application launcher, both desktop launcher menus and separate apps like dmenu-run; or they can be used to start applications when the desktop session starts by placing them in ~/.config/autostart.

Desktop files can also set properties related to an application. In this particular case, the MimeType field tells the desktop session what MIME types should be associated with the application. For example, my desktop file for Blender associates the application/x-blender MIME type with it, which causes Blender to show up in the Open with… dialog.

The MimeType field is a semicolon-separated list. One desktop file can define multiple associated MIME types for the same application. Krita instead creates a separate file for each association.

Holy FUCK, I’m going to use that so much.

If I have to install Windows on a machine (mostly work-related), I always use Chris Titus’ WinUtil to strip out the garbage bits and delay or completely stop updates. It’s basically a GUI wrapper around various Powershell commands.

You grossly overestimate the number of people who are both willing and able to deploy, secure, manage, and maintain this kind of infrastructure. You may not find any value in offloading these responsibilities to a service provider operated by trained professionals, but your outright refusal to acknowledge that other people might is nothing short of callous.