Playing On Salix - How?

[lurker666]

Hi everyone, I hope you are all well.

My question is, what are the requirements to play on Salix? I work too much and want to relax. I used to play a lot on spyware windows, but I just downloaded and launched it there.

I have downloaded Wine from Alien (downloaded from slackbuilds has some problem, it gives an error), and also Lutris. I downloaded a game (not a new one, a very old Need For Speed), but I can't do anything with it, I run the "Setup.exe" file with Wine, but it gives an error, and I can't touch Lutris.

I don't mean new games, but retro and classics like older versions of Need For Speed, etc.

PlayonLinux would be a good alternative, but there it complains about Wine, some GPL Error if I remember correctly. I don't know how to install the drivers (AMD integrated GPU), I'm stupid for that.

Can you help me with instructions if possible? Because I don't know how to do this and I'm in the dark. I was thinking about systems like Nobara, but on Salix everything is doable I think, and I hate systemd distributions anyway.

So I should install Wine and the graphics drivers. Can you help me with this?

Thanks in advance, and have a nice day!

[ChuangTzu]

Play on Linux might be better. What specific error are you getting?

[lurker666]

Play on Linux might be better. What specific error are you getting?

Hi!

I installed PlayonLinux with all its components, so it works. But whatever I do in it, I keep getting the following error in the program -

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Error in POL_Wine
Wine seems to have crashed

If your program is running, just ignore this message

When I want to install a component, it says this. If I want to create something in it, it says this. I have installed Wine with great difficulty, but only the 64bit version is on the system, not the 32bit version. Another message when I open PlayonLinux:

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PlayOnLinux is unable to find 32bits OpenGL libraries.

You might encounter problem with your games

[gapan]

Try the flatpak:
https://flathub.org/apps/org.phoenicis.playonlinux

Wine needs 32bit libraries, which are not available in a 64bit installation. You could install multilib, but really, don't do that.

[lurker666]

Try the flatpak:
https://flathub.org/apps/org.phoenicis.playonlinux

Wine needs 32bit libraries, which are not available in a 64bit installation. You could install multilib, but really, don't do that.

I have installed PlayOnLinux without problems, the problem I think is with Wine. When I type

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wine

in Terminal, there is just

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wine64

is available. I think I need to install Wine32, just I don't know how can I do this. I don't find Wine32 In Slackbuilds, so I don't know this. It is possible to install it?

[gapan]

Wine should be available through the playonlinux flatpak, you won't find available by its own. So launching stuff from within playonlinux should work.

[inukaze]

Exist a lot of sofware you can use for Playing on GNU/Linux for example

1 - Native Videogames like :
Tux Kart , Super Tux, Pingus, Battle For Wesnoth, World Of Goo, Half-Life 1 + Expansions, Half-Life 2 + Episodes, Portal, Portal 1, Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3 Arena, Quake 3 Team Arena

On GOG website you can buy Natives Games [ If in you account the game is yours because, are not a license for use like another webs like Steam ]

2 - Software Suite : RetroArch, and the cores adaptations for libretro like : Emulators ( snes9x, mednafen, etc ) , Game Engines ( OpenLara, NXEngine, Cannonball, etc . . . )

3 - Compatibility Layer : Wine, Proton ( Wine + eSync + Dxvk )

4 - GUIs or FrontEnd for The Compatibility Layer : PlayOnLinux, Lutris, Q4Wine, WineBottles, Lutris

5 - Game Manager : Steam, Lutris, PlayOnLinux, Heoric Launcher

6 - Emulators like : snes9x, vbam, duckstation, mupen64plus, ppsspp, etc . . .

7 - Virtual Machines : VirtualBox , Qemu / kvm

8 - DOSBox-X , PCEm -> This software are a middle way between emulator and virtual-machine.

You have a lot of options

Just make most specific question and i can answer because i ever use GNU/Linux for playing games from 2004, but i had started to use GNU/Linux from 1998