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Windows is actually pretty good OS (lemmy.world)

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[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I haven't completely gotten rid of Windows. I have it installed on another SSD but in the last 8 months since I switched, I've only needed it for Dyson Sphere Project (needed AutoHotKey), Deadlock (crashes too often in Linux and they ban you for 2 hours every time you leave a game), and whenever I feel like playing C&C Generals which for some reason runs like absolute dogshit on my Linux box despite everything else working fine.

But that Windows SSD has nothing, NOTHING on it but Steam games and Winamp. Microsoft isn't getting access to a damn thing anymore when it comes to personal data. I'm tired of protecting myself against them, and FFS I've been a Microsoft backoffice sysadmin for over 25 years so I know how, but I'm still sick of it! I don't even surf the web on that install. I play my game and when I'm done I boot back to Tumbleweed!

Gonna have to look into Lutris, I really like the idea of that sandboxing!

[–] Aceticon 4 points 4 months ago

For sandboxing in Lutris you'll want to have a look at the "Command Prefix" option under "Runner options" - whatever you put there prefixes the command that runs the game, which is exactly how sandboxing with things like firejail works (i.e. you start your stuff from the command line with firejail firejail-args your-stuff your-stuff-args so you literally prefix your command with firejail).

It's possible to configure it game by game and also as a global default for all games which you can then override for only some games (this later is how I run it).

Lutris also integrates with Steam so you can run Steam games from it.