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Any way to reset Lutris + Wine to "factory settings"? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by QuincyPigBoy@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

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I’m new to this and have been trying to get Fallout NV to run on my Chromebook Plus. I had Fallout 3 running great but at some point I did something so that FO3 fails to launch.

Can I do something like a fresh install? I don’t care about losing data/ games.

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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 8 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Wine "prefixes" are just directories. Have you tried deleting it and using a fresh prefix?

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Speaking as a Linux newb here...what exactly is a "prefix" in this context? :/

[–] Dreyns@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

It's an environment in wich it makes the game run sort of

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So it's the components of Wine that produces its fabled compatibility layer?

[–] Dreyns@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It creates an arborescence that contains the necessary library for you application to work with a thick layer of magic on top of that to make it all work. This is were my understanding is at at least

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sorry for my ignorance, but could you ELI5 that for me?

I don't know what an arborescence is.

[–] Dreyns@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

There's another comment that explains it in more details than me but it's a hierarchy of files your C://user/you/appdata...etc and since it branches into multiple choices you can call it an arborescence if you will.

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