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Grandia2, Sims3 and Cesar3 on Linux? (lemmy.world)
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My wife has a windows 10 laptop that works very well (hardware). However it seems that it won't support win11. Rather than trying to tinker and make it install Win11 without the TPM support, etc., I want to install Linux Mint.

There are three games she adores and wants them to work if I installed Linux:

  1. Grandia 2 installed via Steam. Will proton support it?
  2. Sims 3 installed via Steam. Willnproton support this as well?
  3. Cesar 3 (which runs in a Win7 VM in windows setup by her tech savy friend). She has those files and the exe files etc. Can that be run on Linux? I'm reading about DOSBox, but not sure if that is the right tool.

I can rip out windows and go full Linux on her machine if there is support for running these three games. Any chance for me on this?

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[–] untorquer@quokk.au 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Assuming your wife is new to Linux: Get secondary hard drive and boot Linux off that, set Linux to first entry in grub. If your wife ends up frustrated with Linux then she can just boot back into windows instead of dealing with undue frustration and possible resentment.

Windows 10 still works fine and will continue to for a long time (you're literally running a win7 VM). If you're worried about security or whatever just don't use it for sensitive stuff. For gaming? Security updates don't matter.

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Trying to play games from the NTFS drive on Linux is a surefire way to make sure she will end up frustrated with the experience.

[–] untorquer@quokk.au 2 points 3 days ago

The second hard drive can be linux native file format and you can run an individual(duplicate) install of each there. SATA/SSD will be plenty fast for these games.

It's a temporary solution until she's comfortable enough with linux to ditch the windows install. So the wasted space(Windows install/drive) can be reclaimed and reformatted later on.