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Protontricks is a useful tool for Linux gaming, but it's a bit on the slow and complicated side that Prefixer aims to solve.

If you've never used Protontricks directly - it's a wrapper tool that enables you to run Winetricks commands for games running with Proton / GE-Proton. This is useful for launching external executables, adding needed runtime libraries and so on that sometimes games need to actually run properly (or for major standalone mods).

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[–] p0358@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I am very sad it's using JSON instead of TOML

EDIT: and even sadder if it's just Steam Proton without regular WINE prefixes or umu's protons

[–] priapus@piefed.social 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

This is very good, winetricks has been a great tool for Linux gaming but its a very slow 20000 line shell script, it definitely needs a replacement imo.

Hopefully this works well enough that Valve and Umu consider switching to it for applying Protonfixes.

[–] goatinspace@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago