Haven't installed GNU/Linux yet or seek a recommendation? check out EndeavourOS.
Suggestions for any changes to this repo are welcome on Matrix.
Virtual Machines are not supported.
Please click one the following links to setup your GNU/Linux distribution.
- Arch including: Endeavour OS, Arco, Artix, Manjaro and others.
- Debian Sid/Rolling including: Nitrux, Sparky Rolling and Siduction.
- Fedora including: Rawhide.
- NixOS
- Mint including: Pop!_OS, KDE Neon, Elementary OS
- Question: Where is Ubuntu? Answer: Don't use Ubuntu.
You graphic hardware (GPU/APU) must have Vulkan 1.3 support for releases which use DXVK and VKD3D, marked as start.e-w.sh for the start script.
Releases with start.n-w.sh require Vulkan support but not 1.3 necessarily. Releases with start.n.sh generally do not require vulkan support.
Open up a terminal and then run the following command. Please edit where appropriate.
ATTENTION! - Using sh instead of bash does not work! Only use bash or ./ with x permission.
bash /Path/to/Game/start.{n/e-w/n-w}.sh
Available environment variables:
CACHEPERCENT=15 - Percentage of total hardware RAM to be used by dwarfs as cache. Higher means better smoothness (not necessarily impactful if increased further). 15% is default.
DBG=1 - Enables terminal output of binary and/or wine.
WANBLK=0 - Disables WAN blocking which is enabled by default if bindtointerface package is installed.
UNMOUNT=0 - Disables auto-unmounting of the dwarfs image from 'files/groot'.
settings.sh file provides some optional commands which can be useful.
bash settings.sh COMMAND
Available Commands (older version)
extract (extract-dwarfs)
unmount (unmount-dwarfs)
mount (mount-dwarfs)
delete-image (delete-dwarfs)
compress (compress-dwarfs)
The extraction command will automatically make start script use the extracted files and will not attempt to run mounted again until groot directory is missing/empty again (if the script defaults to mounting).
Adding a mod is supported through using the files/groot-rw directory. Add files to it directly or mount the game files as seen above and add or edit files in the 'files/groot' directory.
These files will be saved into the 'files/groot-rw' directory and override the base game files on each run.
Keep in mind that modding on Wine is not a guaranteed feature and depends on how the mod loads or if it interferes with wine. Generally if the mod can be loaded through a launcher or directly in game it should be fine.
All releases are tested on Arch Linux or EndeavourOS using either EXT4, BTRFS or XFS filesystems.
If you would like a GUI library for your games, see launchers page.