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Laser@feddit.org 5 months agoWhat’s confusing about wine prefixes apart from the fact that wine itself doesn’t come with a graphical interface to manage them? On a Deck, Steam should handle these for you
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Laser@feddit.org 5 months agoWhat’s confusing about wine prefixes apart from the fact that wine itself doesn’t come with a graphical interface to manage them? On a Deck, Steam should handle these for you
Aceticon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Calling them “prefixes” is about the total of the confusion. Call them “instances” or even just “boxes” and it’s suddenly clear what they do.
(The only reason I’m not using “sandbox” is because they don’t really provide sandboxing from a security point of view, only a kind of separate instance with its own configuration but with access to everything via the Z drive)
Once you figure out what using a different “wine prefix” only really means a separate “Windows” with it’s own config there’s nothing confusing about it.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Oh I know what prefixes are. Configuring them is the bitch part
Aceticon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I just use Lutris, which generally does most of that work for me.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Same. However some mod programs that rely on Windows prerequisites like C++ and .NETb don’t have that (which is where my frustrations were stemming from)