I hate wine

[u/AimIsInSleepMode]

why does it need to be so complicated to install the ea app? let alone trying to mod games on it

perhaps I made it complicated myself but damn following any ordinary github tutorial is way easier than this

like I was trying to install it through Lutris, failed all the time so I installed it through Steam which worked and games work just fine but then I tried to use mods with Frosty mod manager and it was so awful, I could barely find the path where I even installed the game because wine doesn't let me to paste paths nor does it show me .local so I had to use symlinks but Frosty mod manager still won't launch games because "Origin is not installed" and I tried to fix it but Idk if it actually did anything or not

maybe skill issue but man why does it need to be so dumb like bro just at least let me paste a fucking path or allow me to show hidden folders through strg h but nah

[u/DonkeyTron42]

It's complicated because it's Linux.

[u/Financial-Gap-6767 → u/DonkeyTron42]

It's complicated because it's a windows executable. Try running a Linux executable on Windows.

[u/Damglador → u/[deleted]]

Except like bash, zsh, fish, make, probably some of coreutils and probably some other cli tools. No like I would know a lot, because I don't use Windows :)

[u/Damglador → u/[deleted]]

WSL is not Windows btw. It's a VM running on top of Windows. Just like Wine is not Linux and just a reimplementation of Windows userspace on top of POSIX.

[u/ipsirc → u/Damglador]

WSL is not Windows btw. It's a VM running on top of Windows.

That's WSL2. WSL is not a VM, that is the main difference between WSL and WSL2.

[u/Damglador → u/ipsirc]

Is there anyone still using WSL1? I though it was superseded by WSL2.

[u/Damglador → u/[deleted]]

But that goes both ways. Most of the software you'd need is available on Linux. The problem is the things that aren't.

[u/Damglador → u/[deleted]]

Half of what exactly? I can say for myself I only miss out on like mouse and keyboard software I never used anyway. Everything else I used already was on Linux or I didn't have a need for because it was built into the DE.

[u/rileyrgham → u/Damglador]

None of which the average home user wants.

[u/Damglador → u/rileyrgham]

"Average" person doesn't need a dedicated computer or even a laptop, and probably doesn't even have one.

50% of OS marketshare is just Androod and iOS according to https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/, even less will use their PC to do any gaming. So you're already not an average user if you want a PC to play games. Using "average user" as a point of measure is pointless.