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Hello all, I made the jump. Its been hard and I am here for some help (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by Squizzy@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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Hey! So I have always wanted to make the jump to linux and pc gaming and figured I would do them both together. I would not consider myself techy, just aout tech literate in that I am aware of how much I dont know.

I have linux mint, on a mid to late i5 w/16gb memory. I wanted initially to make a home server but I have jusy been poking around and ended up trying to play all the games I have in attic through emulators and the like.

So I got loads of emulators, I use Cartridge which is a Lutris fork. It just seemed cleaner and worked when I tried it out. In that I had been booting into PCSX2 and finally playing MK Deception again. After three evenings poking and gaming PCSX2 shuts down every time I try to boot a game.

I have uninstalled, reinstalled and changed from 1.7.xx to 2.2 to the nightly 2.3 (I think). I cannot get it to work.

I have so many questions but if I could get back to Konquest I would be so happy, and bother you all later.

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[–] Arehandoro@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Not sure recommending a flatpak installation is the best thing to someone kinda new.

[–] jamesbunagna@discuss.online 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yes and no.

Has it got its own set of rules you'd have to learn and thus an accompanying learning ~~curve~~ bump? Sure. Which, in actuality is mostly just knowing that Flatseal is your go-to whenever a flatpak causes issues.

Is it a surefire method after you've become accustomed with it? Absolutely. All kinds of jankiness can prevent any piece of software from working on your system. With Flatpak, especially on distros that enable it by default, you at least know that your system isn't the culprit.

Besides, Flatpak is enabled by default on Linux Mint. The PCSX2 flatpak is even verified. So no additional setting up or whatsoever is required.

What makes you weary besides what's already stated above?

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

For someone who just wants to play a game it's a great suggestion, as long as the application uses portals etc.