Help running cracked (or not) windows games on linux

CS1.6 and Prism launcher for minecraft (you can bypass the account requirement with this) have a linux build iirc, I would go with that.

There is also !linuxcracksupport@lemmy.world, their wiki has some guides, not sure how in depth they are.

I recommend using PollyMC, if you want to play Minecraft for free. It's based on the awesome Prism Launcher, is completely open source, and has more features than the official launcher or TLauncher.

If you want something that's basically the exact same thing as Notepad++, check out Notepad Next. If you want something similar, try Notepadqq, and if you want something better, use Kate. It's developed by the KDE Project btw, and fits in well with the rest of your Plasma desktop experience.

I have installed Lutris (flatpak), Bottles (flatpak) and Heroic (Appimage).

Why did you install Heroic as an AppImage? Just go with the Flatpak, which is more convenient, because you can easily update it from Discover.
https://flathub.org/apps/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl

I also recommend installing ProtonUp-Qt btw, it's an easy to use graphical tool that lets you manage multiple versions of Proton. Once you have it installed, use it to download the latest version of Proton-GE-custom. It has better performance and compatibility with many games.

When actually installing Linux onto your machine, I would reconsider your choice of distribution though. Debian isn't bad, but there are better, easier, more user-friendly distros for gaming. One example of this is Bazzite. It's pretty similar to Steam OS, and you can't really break it.

Debian is not great for gaming. At least not if you have somewhat current hardware. Other distributions have much more up to date drivers and software.

And in my experience getting a game to run in a virtual machine is much harder than on bare metal.

That said, to answer your questions, you can find Lutris' install scripts on lutris.net. ie https://lutris.net/games/outer-wilds/. You can select to view the scripts. For dependencies you're looking for the task with the name winetricks.

- task:
    app: arial vcrun2019 d3dcompiler_43 d3dcompiler_47 d3dx9 win7
    arch: win64
    description: Installing dependencies
    name: winetricks
    prefix: $GAMEDIR

There after app you find all the dependencies it installs.

You can also search for the games on https://protondb.com it will show you reports by users on how a game runs and what configuration changes they had to make to get a game running. It's Steam-centric so you will only get games that are on Steam and on Steam most stuff is automated so you won't always see the dependencies needed as Steam has already installed them. https://www.protondb.com/app/753640?device=any

T launcher working fine under linux since it java just find and download it as .jar file But i also recommend higly recommend
https://llaun.ch/en it was original tlauncher laucher, more details https://telegra.ph/The-True-Story-of-TL-05-21 Developer even publishing source code of his laucher. But u need to download from ukrainian,russja,belarusia or other countries cause for most europe couries it gonna show DCMA banner from mojang,in other case it will load all files

U don't need windows version of cs 1.6.Valve ported all cs to linux,so so find native 1.6 version https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5735662

Also recommens u to try project portproton for launching games,most of my games works with 2 clicks https://github.com/Castro-Fidel/PortWINE

If u get used to notepad++ very much u can use reimplementation of it which cross platform https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext

Have been almost a year since I switched to Linux completely. I'm using CachyOS (an Arch derivative), so, you may have to adjust some things for your distro.

First of all, your driver setup varies heavily on what hardware you have, obviously. All AMD (both CPU and GPU) being the easiest for setup and laptops with Intel CPU + iGPU and Nvidia dGPU being notoriously hard to manage (it's also my case, which sucks). Look up what you need for your specific hardware.

Next comes your display server and audio server. The bleeding edge here being Wayland + Pipewire.

Wayland can be a bit bitchy on Nvidia GPUs, but it got a lot better over the last years. To use Wayland your desktop environment has to support it. Check with your specific DE. I'm using KDE Plasma, been quite happy since the switch.

Pipewire is pretty easy to setup, just uninstall your old audio server, replace it with Pipewire and an adapter package for what you had (like pipewire-pulse for PulseAudio) and you are good to go. It's very cool with tools like qpwgraph for audio management, easily the most mind-blowing thing I installed. Your friend came over and you want to send game audio both to your and their headphones? Easy. Been selling parts of my soul to get these sorts of setups on Windows for a long time.

Next, use native software where you can. You can replace Notepad++ with VSCodium or Helix (the learning curve for modal editors is steep, but it's very worth it).

For Minecraft, TLauncher is... controversial to say the least, even for usage on Windows. Try PrismLauncher. Works great, allows to download modpacks from popular distributors and is pretty easy to trick into playing in offline mode without a Microsoft account, just look it up.

Next, the translation layer. I'm using Proton-GE for everything via Lutris. While, as per GE, it is not a supported use-case, it's what I've got the best experience with so far.

As for dependecies, there is a good guide from GE for that.

Hopefully it helps in one way or the other. You can also experiment with distibution of your choice. There are some gaming-focused ones that come with driver installation tools to make it easier for you, don't hesitate to dump everything and start from scratch with a fresh install while you are not that commited to one specific distro.

AT Launcher for Minecraft has a native Linux package. I know that isn't the particular launcher you asked for, but it works great.

maybe you can try to change the runner of the game, you could try with proton-ge instead of wine-ge, or some other thing

I do that on Lutris in case the game doesn't work, or it is slower than it should be, or it has problems with input or output

upto now every game I wanted to install worked with at least one of the options

edit: also other easy things you might try can be the windows version and the bit architecture

if some of these options don't work quickly, you can check on wine's website or proton's website, where you can find reccomended configurations for games and software

Piggybacking on this, I tried Fitgirl repack releases and some of them hang up during install when executed through wine or proton. I resorted to installing them from a windows boot and then execute them from linux, but does anyone have a better solution?