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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Nice man thats awesome you should check out lampray

Currently only supports BG3 and cyberpunk2077 but has plans for Bethesda games I think the beta on his discord might allow them. Anyway it'll be a linux mod manager for multiple games once complete

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I disvovered Lampray just this weekend. It's an awesome application.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

that is so awesome

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Thanks for shouting this out. Honestly the only thing keeping me going back to Windows is the complexity in getting modding done on various games, Bethesda and BG3 among them. I know it can be done, but there are too many hoops for my post-work brain to jump through. End up running out of spoons to keep learning all the new concepts. This is exciting, definitely keeping an eye on this as hopefully the final barrier breaker to switch to Linux full time.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I really only wanted mods to fix the horrible 2011 Xbox 360 UI and to remove the dynamic enemy level scaling, but for the latter no manual install guides were provided and it seems you must use one of these mod organizing softwares for whatever fucking reason.

For mod organizer no install instructions were provided for a Linux/GOG combination so I just gave up trying to mod Skyrim. I just wanted two goddamn mods and I failed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Mod managers have sadly created a reliance / dependency. Arma and dayz are heavily effected by this 😕

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I am running it pirated on lutris, no installer all manual, I might be able to help you

[–] Montagge 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I have MO2 4.2.2 working in bottles to mod the gog version of Fallout 3

To get it to work I had to copy and paste the installer into the bottle and install dotNet 4.8

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

damn is there a 4.2.2? Only readon for me using the ols version is rhat it has been like this since windows and everything is just symlinked from there lol

[–] Montagge 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sorry I typed that backwards lol

It's 2.4.4

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

I had some trouble with 2.4.4 on proton 7. It would get very laggy after being open for a while. I updated to 2.5.0 on proton 9 beta and it's been running smoothly with hundreds of mods.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

the only thing that wasn't working {for me at the very least.} were the direct downloads from Nexus via MO2 but that's inconsequential since you can always just install the mods manually.

but yes, MO2 works perfectly in Wine/Proton. it's especially easy to set up a shortcut to it using Lutris. for example, installing New Vegas using the GOG install script and then editing the settings to replace NV's executable with the MO2 executable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

yep that's what I did it all just as smooth as windows

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Last time I tried it, the game's performance dropped severely when launched through MO2 in Wine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

didn't test them against one other

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What are the extra 2 traffic light buttons on the windows in your DE?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

they're the secret fourth and fifth window buttons that the government doesn't want you to know about (one pins window behind everything when there is a lotta windows, the other pins it on top of everything)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

This is very useful actually, how did you get those?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

on kde you can edit the top bar

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Most distros have something like this, on gnome you just right-click the bar that the other buttons are on

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The above user seems to be on Plasma. In which case it's buried in the settings somewhere (KDE in a nutshell lol). I believe it's somewhere in the themes section, IIRC.

On Gnome you can access the same functionality by right clicking the header bar. There's also an option to have a window always move to the workspace you're on, which is pretty cool.

E: idk who's downvoting me relaying features that someone asked about, but that's hilarious. How did that offend you?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

on kde it is also accessible with a right click AND in themes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wait. What's the point / practical use of pinning a window behind everything else?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

sometimes I wanna have terminal behind an bunch of small windows with documentatiom in front of them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I have no idea how people set up more than one program in proton/lutris/bottles/whatever but it is definitely super cool.

Until proton becomes well documented with tutorials and explanations I feel like this is sadly unachievable for most casual people

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

is super easy with lutris, you juat point to the exe and to the preflx. and badabimbababum it's done

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Check out steam tinker launch

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Found this last week, makes running external programs much easier.

https://github.com/jcnils/protonhax

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Thanks, this is cool! Definitely looks fun to play around with, plus logging might help demystify proton nonsense

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

didn't notice lmao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I think they're just making fun of the bad font kerning in the app which causes a gap in the word Unmanaged

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

MO2 doesnt work that great with Fallout 4 and Proton if you have F4SE installed though.

Have to keep deleting F4SE to get Mo2 to load, then reinstalling F4SE to enable mods and launch the game.

Well, that was before bethesdas recent updates completely nuked my install and made me delete everything in frustration.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

it does work great for me, but I use pre betheada fuck up fallout 4