Software compat for linux is nearly total and complete except for two REAL ANNOYING CATEGORIES:

  • John Deere ass corpo ass software for interfacing with maker devices

  • effing E-Sports and wannabe E-Sports (HUNT)

but all of my weird old crap works just fine HBU

  • AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    2 months ago

    honestly proton and lutris are godsends for getting old software to work. I feel like I can get old exes working on Linux that wouldn’t work on windows

  • recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de
    5·
    2 months ago

    The one reason I shamefully went back to dual booting is because of sim racing. Logitech wheels are the only ones with official Linux support, Fanatec has reverse engineered open source drivers but that’s about it, and as for the actual games a lot of them are unfortunately shaky or don’t run at all on Linux. ACC for example works without problem, while iRacing from what I recall is still technically possible to run, but will get you banned because its anti cheat doesn’t work.

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
    2·
    2 months ago

    I think the closest to obscure software I’ve had to use Lutris to get working is some crossword puzzle maker that only has a windows version. One day it just stopped working using just wine, so I switched to Lutris just to make it work.

    Edit:

    The software was last updated July 27 2022. It can generate HTML and interactive HTML when you’re finished, which is why I got it. That, and it was the first open source one I found for windows. Only got it on my laptop because I knew it had features I care about and would most likely run fine through wine.

    It’s Crossword Designer.