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Posted January 09, 2016
Also premade scripts courtesy of VV221 that enable easy install of several Windows games on Linux.

Link: http://wiki.dotslashplay.it/en/start

Also Doom, Wolfenstein and Settlers 2 Gold work perfectly in dosbox.
Post edited January 09, 2016 by Matruchus
Posted January 09, 2016
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hummer010: Here's a few more "windows games on Linux" links:

Neverwinter Nights

Descent 3 - This one's a little gray, it's a Loki port.

OpenAge - Open source Age of Empires engine

Quake 1 - Darkplaces

Quake 2

Freespace 2 Open

Return to Castle Wolfenstein
I'll add one here (and will gladly edit this if someone can get me a direct link) but there is a FANTASTIC game called Thea.

In showing how great a community and developer can be when working together, the creators of this one fully admitted they weren't skilled enough to create a Linux version, however they'd love to do all they could to support the Linux community. So they compiled the game in Linux-readable code and put it out there free for all Linux users to tinker with to their hearts' content. Surprise surprise; it works like a charm!

I am a Wine idiot and have done little more than install it; and even I was able to get the game up and running, from download start to ingame, in about 30 minutes. Give it a shot!
Posted January 09, 2016
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dtgreene: One other possible use of this facility: If you like to take screenshots, try setting a shortcut to scrot in the same manner. Now when you press the keyboard shortcut you chose, a screenshot will be saved, probably in your home directory. (Try it and report back where the screenshot is saved.)
Mint already has shortcuts set up for taking screenshots:

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adamhm: Keyboard shortcuts:
http://www.shortcutworld.com/en/linux/Linux-Mint-Cinnamon-Edition_17.2.html
Print Screen = Take a screenshot
Ctrl + Print Screen = Copy a screenshot to clipboard
Alt + Print Screen = Take a screenshot of the current window
Ctrl + Alt + Print Screen = Copy a screenshot of the current window to the clipboard
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + R = Toggle desktop recording (video will be saved to your Home folder)

Screenshots get saved to ~/Pictures

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Matruchus: Also premade scripts courtesy of VV221 that enable easy install of several Windows games on Linux.
Link: http://wiki.dotslashplay.it/en/start
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Ixamyakxim: I'll add one here (and will gladly edit this if someone can get me a direct link) but there is a FANTASTIC game called Thea.
I had forgotten about those, thanks for reminding me... links to them have been added.
Post edited January 09, 2016 by adamhm
Posted January 09, 2016
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adamhm: Print Screen = Take a screenshot
Ctrl + Print Screen = Copy a screenshot to clipboard
Alt + Print Screen = Take a screenshot of the current window
Ctrl + Alt + Print Screen = Copy a screenshot of the current window to the clipboard
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + R = Toggle desktop recording (video will be saved to your Home folder)

Screenshots get saved to ~/Pictures
Is that a Mint 'thing' or a feature of the particular window manager you're using?
Does it work on Cinnamon and MATE?
Posted January 09, 2016
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Matruchus: Also premade scripts courtesy of VV221 that enable easy install of several Windows games on Linux.
Link: http://wiki.dotslashplay.it/en/start
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adamhm: (...)
I had forgotten about those, thanks for reminding me... links to them have been added.
Thanks for that, I’ll try to think of a way to link back to your thread from mine ;)
Just a small precision by the way: ./play.it scripts are not limited to Windows games, the project includes games running natively, or through WINE, DOSBox or ScummVM. Any game running on Debian (or derivatives like Mint), no matter how, is in ./play.it scope.
Support for non Debian-based distributions is planned too, but there’s no ETA yet.
Post edited January 09, 2016 by vv221
Posted January 09, 2016
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adamhm: Shortcut for 'xkill'
I recommend setting a shortcut for this, as it is very useful and it saves time having to load the System Monitor to terminate something if it locks up & won't close normally.
Thanks for this! I'm not sure why I never thought of doing this - such a simple idea!

Edit: This came in handy last night. Fantastic tip!
Post edited January 13, 2016 by hummer010
Posted January 09, 2016
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Smannesman: Is that a Mint 'thing' or a feature of the particular window manager you're using?
Does it work on Cinnamon and MATE?
I haven't tried them on any other distros or MATE, print screen worked on the KDE edition of Mint though so I expect that binding will probably apply to all editions of Mint. Can always check what the keyboard shortcuts are through system settings anyway.
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vv221: Just a small precision by the way: ./play.it scripts are not limited to Windows games, the project includes games running natively, or through WINE, DOSBox or ScummVM. Any game running on Debian (or derivatives like Mint), no matter how, is in ./play.it scope.
Support for non Debian-based distributions is planned too, but there’s no ETA yet.
Fixed :)
Post edited January 09, 2016 by adamhm
Posted January 09, 2016
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adamhm: I haven't tried them on any other distros or MATE, print screen worked on the KDE edition of Mint though so I expect that binding will probably apply to all editions of Mint. Can always check what the keyboard shortcuts are through system settings anyway.
Alright good to know, I used to use Greenshot for that purpose.
In case I needed to take some screenshots while RDPing.
Extremely useful for work.
Posted January 09, 2016
Has anyone tried to install Big Fish Games app ( game manager ) under Linux ?
Posted May 06, 2016
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adamhm: One more thing regarding secure boot: if you plan to buy a prebuilt system with Windows 10 and you want the option to be able to run Linux Mint (or another OS outside of those that secure boot allows), make sure the system you are buying will allow you to disable it. Whilst Windows 8/8.1 certification required that manufacturers give users the choice to disable secure boot, certification for Windows 10 has no such requirement. So it's entirely possible that the manufacturers of some Windows 10 systems might not allow the users of their systems to disable it.
I bought a laptop with Windows 10 installed and it allows for turning off secure boot but the problem is that turning it off still isn't allowing me to boot into ubuntu (I'm getting a blank screen) and if there's no media then it isn't booting to Windows 10 either. What should I do?

If it is turned on then I get a blank screen after choosing try ubuntu before installing and when secure boot is off I'm just getting a blank screen with a blinking _ at top left corner. I tried editing the boot options in 1st case to include nomodeset, acpi = off and nolapic. with no success. (found those suggestions here)

Tried with both Ubuntu 16.04 (live usb) and Linux Mint KDE 17 (live usb and dvd), had the same outcome with both.
Post edited May 06, 2016 by Hunter65536
Posted May 06, 2016
How long did you let it sit at the blinking cursor before giving up (assuming there was still disc/drive activity during this time - it can take a while to load everything if booting from a DVD or slow flash drive) & have you tried booting using "legacy" support rather than UEFI? Also what make/model laptop is it?
Posted May 06, 2016
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adamhm: How long did you let it sit at the blinking cursor before giving up (assuming there was still disc/drive activity during this time - it can take a while to load everything if booting from a DVD or slow flash drive) & have you tried booting using "legacy" support rather than UEFI? Also what make/model laptop is it?
Thank you for replying!

I let it stay for nearly 10 minutes and I set it to legacy mode beforehand. I even turned off windows fast startup, looked for fast boot option to disable in BIOS but found none and restarted from recovery section of Windows 10 in settings.

I'm using Acer Aspire V3-574G-341P

Edit: set it to legacy once again and set to boot from USB, I'll wait for a few more minutes to see if it proceeds forward.
Post edited May 06, 2016 by Hunter65536
Posted May 06, 2016
20 minutes and no change. (The _ is still blinking) :(
Posted May 06, 2016
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Hunter65536: 20 minutes and no change. (The _ is still blinking) :(
It shouldn't take more than a minute or two (and only that long when using really slow DVD/flash drives). Have you tried starting Mint in compatibility mode?
Posted May 06, 2016
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Hunter65536: 20 minutes and no change. (The _ is still blinking) :(
Here's one little trick that's worked for me in the past:

Try adding fbcon=map:1 as an argument to your linux kernel at boot time, without any other arguments, such as nomodeset, etc.

The screen may go black for a while during boot, but with any luck you should hopefully be able to get to an X session.
Post edited May 06, 2016 by blakstar
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