clarry: ITT two people who evidently haven't used emacs, which by the way had X support before Linux existed. The protocol was upgraded from X10 to X11 in 1988 on System V..

And it has pretty good support for editing remote files through various protocols using TRAMP ("Transparent Remote Access, Multiple Protocols") . I think that's the normal way to run emacs, no-one's going to bother with installing their highly custom setups with dozens of packages and GUI features to run it on a server in a terminal over laggy ssh connection.

clarry: -Clarry has a point-

TheNamelessOne_PL: Thank you all for your help. I appreciate all the advice. I also apologize to the guy who got downvoted trying to help me.

I also understand my ignorance may have been frustrating. However, cRPG games are a niché, as is gaming on PC, as is gaming on GOG, as is playing GOG games in Linux. So I think it was natural I was a bit worried about this problem being difficult to solve. I mean, the situation described above pertains to, what, 0.1% of all gamers? Less?

So, thank you all and sorry at the same time.

However, there was one more thing. Icewind Dale 2 does not have an Enhanced Edition or a native Linux port. Additionally, it's a 20-year-old game. As you can see, it's a special case.

Now, I am trying to work out a solution for myself, don't think I am lazy. But if anyone here has installed Icewind Dale 2 on Linux (preferably Ubuntu) and knows how to get it running with acceptable performance, I would greatly appreciate it.

I've tried using Wine, but the performance is downright unacceptable. Lutris says there is a fan-made native port available, but the download fails each time I attempt it, showing, "zip error code 2304" or something like that.

Now, again, I am searching for my own solution, but if anyone of you has already managed to get this game running on Linux, I would be extremely curious to hear about it.

TheNamelessOne_PL: I've tried using Wine [for Icewind Dale 2], but the performance is downright unacceptable.

vv221: ./play.it works around the performance issue, cf. [./play.it] Install the Icewind Dale games on Linux.

TheNamelessOne_PL: I am kind of confused... I've followed the instructions on the site. I've ended up with three compressed files with the .deb extension. So now what am I supposed to do?

Darvond: Try this: Open your favorite terminal, CD into the directory where the files are, and then install the packages by invoking apt and pointing directly at them. You can use tab to autocomplete tedious things like directory listings.

At least, I certainly would hope that's what you're supposed to do.

TheNamelessOne_PL: I am kind of confused... I've followed the instructions on the site. I've ended up with three compressed files with the .deb extension. So now what am I supposed to do?

Darvond: Try this: Open your favorite terminal, CD into the directory where the files are, and then install the packages by invoking apt and pointing directly at them. You can use tab to autocomplete tedious things like directory listings.

At least, I certainly would hope that's what you're supposed to do.

vv221: That’s obviously what should be done ;)
The purpose of ./play.it is to delegate most of the work to the packages manager, we are not trying to be smarter than it by going through some custom-made installation process.

TheNamelessOne_PL: Do you think it's good to switch to Linux even for somebody more casual? I like it better than Windows because it's much less bloated, and when you get something to run it feels like an achievement.

TheNamelessOne_PL: Do you think it's good to switch to Linux even for somebody more casual? I like it better than Windows because it's much less bloated, and when you get something to run it feels like an achievement.