I’ve been hearing some good things about WinBoat, so I am wondering if anyone has tried to use it with game mod loaders. Like the windows version of Satisfactory Mod Manager (I know there is a linux one that works perfectly and exactly like the windows version but as this is a very popular game maybe someone did it this route) or, the one I am really interested in right now, Raft Mod Loader. Raft Mod Loader page suggests 1. Bottles and less recommended 2. straight wine. I would like to use a single solution for most of my windows carry overs, ie; steam is one stop for ~90% of my games flat and VR, lutris is one stop for 2 non steam games atm, but I am uncovering more as I go.

I also have 2 windows only apps for VR - FPSVR and Desktop+(this is free), obviously they will not want to port their apps to linux for such a small user base. Has anyone tried these in WinBoat?

  • Grass@sh.itjust.works
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    19 hours ago

    Bottles and lutris mostly serve the same purpose. heroic might be easier so you can use umu for having a more unified experience with wine and proton but I haven’t gotten around to playing with that yet.

    I’ve never used winboat but it seams like a lot of… winbloat…

    I would personally just use protontricks to install any needed sotware to the games own prefix but I’m pretty sure lutris, bottles, and heroic can all do this while making a clickable launch button for it, while starting the mod loaders my way requires manual intervention every time.

    If you haven’t already, check out linux vr adventures: https://lvra.gitlab.io/ I don’t know anything about psvr but it might work with monado. i have the facebook shit mask so I use wivrn.

  • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    I don’t understand why anyone would use this. Its not just running Windows apps in a Windows environment like WINE, it’s a full installation of Windows in a VM, including all of the awful parts of running Windows. It’s infinitely simpler to just use Windows in another partition.

    • lost_faith@lemmy.caOP
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      23 hours ago

      I am dual booting as I get VR to a better level, but I want that cancer off my system completely one day. Right now I have no monitors for vr performance in linux (any suggestions? FPSVR is my monitor for windows in VR) but it “feels” like often I am getting less than 20 fps (eye fatigue and strain that does not occur in the same games on windows) tho it looks like it is at least 35-60fps in the recorded playback, it just feels off.

      I am hoping for some feed back on this from people that have used it. I could use bottles but doesn’t that also require a windows “install” or container type thing like this? I am just exploring different avenues to get things working and this looks promising, tho a VM may make a bit of a dent in my old ryzen 7-3800 and I am fairly confidant if I had an amd card instead of the RTX 4070ti super my experience would be better but that is a cost I cannot swallow yet and I need a new cpu more. In the end I will prolly try to get wine and bottles working but a simple to get running app like this could be the short term answer

      • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
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        23 hours ago

        I want that cancer off my system completely one day

        This does not get the cancer off your system, it just installs it inside of Linux. That’s the point I’m trying to make.

        Getting the cancer out involves what Steam does, running the API calls through a translation layer like WINE or Proton. Bottles is just a frontend for that.

        I’m not sure what the state of VR is in Linux, other than “not good”.

        • lost_faith@lemmy.caOP
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          23 hours ago

          I’m hoping to find linux versions one day. If I didn’t love vr so much I wouldn’t need windows at all as all the flat games I have tried work beautifully from both steam and lutris, ie; satisfactory, ESO, and Dawn of Man.