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[–] Cosmonaut_Collin 23 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I have found that steam proton is a powerful wine machine. I'm not sure if it would help with any of the programs you are trying to run as it does have limits, but I've been shoving a ton of .exe files into steam and they usually work flawlessly.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

i like using bottles or lutris for that, you can change wine versions and parameters easier in case something doesn't work.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Lutris with wine-ge has made some things work for me that didn't work with plain wine. So definitely worth it to try.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've been shoving a ton of .exe files into steam

I wasn't aware that was an option. Do you have a link on how to do that?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Steam can't tell if something is a "game" or not, so you do it the same way as playing a non-steam game through the launcher

https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-add-non-steam-games-to-your-steam-library

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Thank you very much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Oh I had no idea that was possible, thanks :D