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Wine basically let’s you run windows-only software on Linux by making a directory that emulates windows, installs needed dependencies, etc. Most windows programs can be run smoothly using wine in my experience, the main ones that can’t are games with kernal-level anticheat. If you’ve heard of Proton, that’s valves fork of wine that they’ve built up specifically for games
I have heard of Proton. Just didn’t realize it was for gaming. Thanks for the info! I’m seriously thinking about switching now. Just gotta figure out what to do with all my current game repository on windows.
You could get a second hard drive and install Linux on that so you can boot into either, you can also access the files on your Windows drive from Linux (and vice versa) so you can grab the files if needed. If by game repositories you mean GitHub repos you can also just clone those down to the Linux one too
You can also transfer those files to the Linux partition directly, your file browser will (or at least should) be able to find your Windows drive or partition and let you browse all the files there, it’s easy to then drag them to a folder on the Linux side and get them copied over
Oh cool, I didn’t realize that was a thing. If I can run Unreal Engine on Linux, that’s pretty much the only thing stopping me from switching.
Yep! Quick search turns this up, looks like you don’t even need wine for it which is even better.
https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/SharingAndReleasing/Linux/BeginnerLinuxDeveloper/SettingUpAnUnrealWorkflow/#:~:text=Whether you downloaded the Unreal,located on your hard disk.
(Unreal engine also has a specific Linux page, but I don’t have an epic games account so I can’t view it - https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/linux )
Wine basically let’s you run windows-only software on Linux by making a directory that emulates windows, installs needed dependencies, etc. Most windows programs can be run smoothly using wine in my experience, the main ones that can’t are games with kernal-level anticheat. If you’ve heard of Proton, that’s valves fork of wine that they’ve built up specifically for games
I took a quick screenshot of the page while it was loading, before the login overlay was visible:
I also quickly hit the link, which lead to this: https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/linux-development-requirements-for-unreal-engine/
I have heard of Proton. Just didn’t realize it was for gaming. Thanks for the info! I’m seriously thinking about switching now. Just gotta figure out what to do with all my current game repository on windows.
You could get a second hard drive and install Linux on that so you can boot into either, you can also access the files on your Windows drive from Linux (and vice versa) so you can grab the files if needed. If by game repositories you mean GitHub repos you can also just clone those down to the Linux one too
Some of them are github repos, others are not version controlled. But good to know, didn’t even think about re-cloning them.
You can also transfer those files to the Linux partition directly, your file browser will (or at least should) be able to find your Windows drive or partition and let you browse all the files there, it’s easy to then drag them to a folder on the Linux side and get them copied over