Anyone have experience with using PlayOnLinux?

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October 6, 2013 at 6:51 pm #65624

linuxgnuru
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Just came across this and wondered if it is even worth checking out…

http://www.playonlinux.com/en/

October 6, 2013 at 7:41 pm #70041

Venn Stone
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Le JUST?

October 6, 2013 at 10:25 pm #70043

Sore_Loser
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Its like the FIRST FK’N THING I INSTALL on a fresh installation!

October 6, 2013 at 10:51 pm #70044

linuxgnuru
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until I got this system76 back in July; I never really played games on Linux; just sys admin.

October 7, 2013 at 12:22 am #70046

Freejack_
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Only thing I have installed an ran from PLOL is World Of Tanks. Everything else is in wine using the QT4 interface and winetricks.

October 7, 2013 at 10:55 am #70052

strider
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I never got anything useful out of PlayOnLinux, mostly because I used it on stuff that didn’t run on vanilla wine (+winetricks).

The way PoL manages games (+ the way it’s written) is the reason why Lutris exists today. I still think it’s a good project, but it doesn’t fit my needs.

October 7, 2013 at 4:03 pm #70057

Sore_Loser
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Strider… you have a WINE wrapper?

October 7, 2013 at 6:02 pm #70061

Freejack_
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You got my attention…………looking at it…..Why do they have Doom3 it has a Linux client to play? I loaded my Doom 3 with the linux client and I play it all the time. Lutris looks interesting now to see if it will run some things I can not get to run in the others.

October 8, 2013 at 12:00 am #70062

Sore_Loser
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Agreed. Many launchers for Linux games. AWESOME for new Linux users, but most Linux users aren’t new.

October 8, 2013 at 7:02 am #70063

strider
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Sore_Loser wrote:

Strider… you have a WINE wrapper?

Indeed I do, I just added the ability to use an alternate version of wine this week-end.

Freejack_ wrote:

to see if it will run some things I can not get to run in the others.

Don’t expect any magic here, if a game doesn’t run in wine, it won’t run under Lutris. If the game requires a special setup in order to run (winetricks stuff, patched wine version, …), then someone still has to write a script for it.

October 8, 2013 at 6:57 pm #70066

Sore_Loser
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Just out of curiosity, what’s Lutris?

October 9, 2013 at 6:34 am #70071

strider
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Assuming you’re not trolling and have missed the relevant LGC show or couple of /r/linux_gaming threads.

Lutris is a gaming platform for Linux (http://lutris.net). It automates the installation of games via community provided scripts and provides support for as much gaming platforms as possible (native + wine + bunch of emulators).
It’s under development but I’m the only commiter at the moment, I have a day job and I’m a slacker or it’s going rather slowly and it’s got plenty of bugs.
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