Hi everyone! So I just switched to Linux and I am a little unsure of what to play on my laptop.

It’s a presumably decent laptop, 16gb of ram and Iris Xe, but I find that it has battery issues trying to play anything fancy like Skyrim.

I’m looking into things like emulation, finally tackling my Itch.io backlog, and bringing out old classics.

I like RPGs and text-based choose your own adventure games, so if you have any recommendations I’d appreciate it!

  •  Gork   ( @Gork@beehaw.org ) 
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    41 year ago

    I know that you can run TES 4 Oblivion decently well on Linux with a Windows emulator (WINE). I had a few odd graphics glitches like a gigantic texture of a tree just completely taking over the sky. I guess it wanted to be some kind of Yggdrasil tree or something.

    It ran well though, and on a early 2010-era laptop. I don’t know about mod compatibility though.

    • WINE Is Not an Emulator 😉

      Seriously, that’s what the acronym means, because it’s not an emulator, it’s a compatibility layer.

      There’s also Proton for Steam games, or even non-steam games, though it’s a little more complicated to set up in the later case.

      Oblivion’s excellent with mods, though I’m unfamiliar with modding Bethesda games on Linux.

      • Proton is Wine with a bundle of extra libraries included for compatibility. It’s basically an opinionated gaming-focused distribution of Wine for games.

        I realize you may know this but I’m just adding it here for anyone who may be confused and see the two as in-competition with each other.