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wiki-user: RandomLegend

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  • interesting… can you please go ahead and tell this to my Minisforum PC i hooked up to my TV and let it boot into big picture and resume from sleep etc. just like its a console?

    Because from what you told me it shouldnt work… but it does… and somebody needs to tell it and i can’t because i didnt spend so much time with it… you know i just installed bazzite and called it a day… so i don’t really have a big connection to it :/


    But in all seriousness, you’re completly wrong here. The chip used in the Steamdeck sure is special and does a lot of heavy lifting. But everything that makes out the steamdeck is definetely not exclusive to its hardware. You 100% can just hook up any PC, be it some minisforum mini pc, a laptop or a off the shelf gaming PC, install literally any linux on it and within a few hours of installing and configuring stuff - you can make your own “steamdeck”. It works. Reliable, hasslefree.

    I assume you just don’t have any real-world experience with setting something like this up. Go ahead and try it, it’s not hard and you will see that you just don’t need a steamdeck.

    It’s absolutely nothing special to produce a console-like gaming experience with linux these days.

    You really shouldn’t believe to be correct if everyone else has the real-world experience you try to tell others can’t exist












  • No, bottles is just a program that enables you to use wine much more comfortably.

    Wine isn’t super hard to use, but it’s annoying. So stuff like Bottles and Lutris exist, both basically do the same. They give you both a GUI and much easier accessable settings for the wine-prefixes. Those prefixes basically are just folders with the faked windows stuff in it.

    Lutris is made for games but can be used for programs too. Bottles is made out of the box for both games and programs, has a much more streamlined interface and workflow and lets you easily create new “bottles” (bottle is just the given name for a wine prefix) for each of your games / programs.

    Putting everything in their own bottle / prefix is really handy because it allows you to modify the prefix for each application without ruining it for another. If you need a specific version of a certain .dll file for one game but not for others, you can just install that .dll file in the specific bottle / prefix for that one specific game, and the other games just use their own bottles / prefixes with the default .dll for example.

    Very handy.

    Bottles is usually more recommended because it’s more streamlined… Also the dev of lutris seems quite toxic and isn’t good with making friends in the scene :D