Linux Support Update?

Given the recent trend of windows issues via MS.. perhaps it's time to discuss proper linux support? I know a page exists for this purpose on their site however.. any an every attempt to get it tested for functionality has absolutely failed me.

Perhaps the guide on the site itself could use an update? Someone else to retest the steps an ensure it still works per the claims.

Even if it's just my voice, even if others say I'm doing it all wrong. I have to speak up an see if we can get the ball started somewhere on this.

There is a whole channel on the windower discord dedicated to running windower/ffxi on linux. A lot of people are successfully running on linux at this very moment

I'm glad you can go there and see all that, I'm not able to join that server. I'm stuck to do this here.

Edit: never mind you seem like a ***, good luck

I'd like to remind people to stay clean, mature & don't profile here. If your not here to help don't post anything at all. I didn't do anything to you so why waste everyone's time with nonsense is the idea.

Those that help have my thanks in advance.

I will assume you don't have a discord account? cuz only 1 person is banned from the windower server.

in that case just use the the current Lutris and post super specific issues when you have them, which you likely will.

But the community in the linux-chat channel of the windower discord is active and helpful, the number of issues you could solve just by searching the logs is going to be pretty high. so i would suggest to make your jump to linux easier if you found a way to communicate with them.

Alternatively maybe some part of the ashita community has a non discord presence

lol

I'm not trying to get into the specifics of why I cannot join that server (if you were an admin for that server we could have a chat about it via dm's). Meanwhile, last run with lutris kicked alot of python errors and nothing would ever seem to fix things. Proton, Wine, dotnet, tricks, etc everything failed in all of my tests to get it to run 11 or windower either way.

As for specifics.. yeah those logs if I did reproduce them would be really long, not sure the forum would want that much data so I'd have to trim them.

I'll do a rerun of the installers for both and share any simplified errors I have.

Well if your account was hacked and you were able to reclaim it we can remove the van it got spammer/scam posts. We have done that before for the person who manage to contract us about it.

But I also linked this thread to the Linux channel so someone might stop in here, probably not tonight though.

I've sent you a msg if you wish to pursue that topic further. I won't continue it here as its not the focus. I'm appreciative for the support however.

About: https://docs.windower.net/linux/

Example:

Wine Staging 8.5 or newer (or equivalent)
dotnet462, gdiplus, corefonts installed via winetricks
DirectX 8 compatibilty layer or shim such as D8VK or dgVoodoo2

However, wine staging doesn't exist in the app store on linux whatsoever, was it replaced? does wine itself take over this? nothing says at all here.

Nothing tells you that dotnet is going to be under the "windows dll or component" section.

gdiplus will constantly fail sha256 and abort itself making it uninstallable.

corefonts is tucked away under "install a font"

Then we find "Wine-GE-Proton8-26" mentioned.. is this specific? does a newer version take its place? how sensitive is this exactly?

"Configure Lutris to use the most recent version of Wine."
Right.. the tiny icons new users aren't expecting? followed by a drop down menu labeled for "wine".. to set proton? aren't these things 2 diff programs entirely?

I think this guide could be more friendly to new users unfamiliar to linux. I alone should be enough of an example in this case for why so.

I have to wait on downloads to continue my test install here as things stand. I'll be back with the inevitable errors from that given how I didn't meet the above items this time around.

I believe you're just overcomplicating it.

The scripts handle basically all the work. And the default Lutris configs work great.

For example, you don't need to mess with dotnet. The script installs dotnet48, which is what you need to run windower. No extra configs required.

A large majority of support in the discord channel for this is just people not waiting patiently for the install scripts to finish running. It's really that easy.

And most users don't need to download any special wine runners as a majority of the ones installed by default with lutris are compatible.

The Windower instructions are accurate. The only thing I'd add (but it's a minor thing) is recommend replacing the default Wine-GE to Proton 10 or Wine-GE 10.x verison for better performance, but 8-26 works, its not a blocker.

A couple of years ago I wrote a Install guide on the bg-wiki while still works probably could use a update: https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Linux_Installation_Guide

However support on Linux for this game is great. I've played on Linux for several years and there are a lot of people playing on the Steam Deck, so support isn't lacking.

The introduction of Lutris install scripts from the Windower team made it even more accessible. I remember when you had to install everything manually.

As for dotnet (or any deps for that matter), I agree with Rubenator. There was a point when Windower required .Net 4.8 or newer and the script wasn't updated but its quite a while ago and no longer a problem.

I don't see you mentioned your device/Desktop/Distro, some are more of a pain to get it running on depending on the package manager. For example some bleeding edge distro (like pure Arch, not SteamOS) generally don't ship lib32 which is needed. It's not hard to fix but it require some commands in the terminal.

Joining discord would be easier, I don't generally need assistance but I try help when I can and there is many knowledgeable people in there. If you can't use your old account, make a new one?

Anyone having experience 6-boxing on Linux?

Yes. It works fine.