TheNamelessOne_PL: Hey guys, please keep on responding as I need HELP!!! What if I used the emulator Wine to run these games?

TheNamelessOne_PL: Hey guys, please keep on responding as I need HELP!!! What if I used the emulator Wine to run these games?

mcphail: Mint will not be any better than Ubuntu for these games. Neither will any up to date distribution. The problem is that Beamdog only build and test against the Steam Runtime, which uses libraries from 2016 and earlier. Modern distributions shop modern versions of the standard cryptography libraries which are not backwards compatible. All Beamdog games have been delivering an inferior experience on GOG. Personally, I point the GOG launchers at my Steam Runtime using the LD_PRELOAD or LD_LIBRARY_PATH system variables to get these games running, but if you don't have Steam installed you'll need to source the old versions of the required libraries from somewhere else (or run a distribution from 2016 - not recommended!).

See my post at https://www.gog.com/forum/baldurs_gate_series/bgee_bg2ee_iwdee_and_pstee_all_4_still_fail_to_run_on_3_different_linux_distros_mint/post4 for an example.

BrianSim: To be honest there needs to be a far saner way of packaging games for Linux in a developer friendly "long term stable" format that actually includes all required dependencies than the current Linux philosophy of "we haven't included half the dependencies we need as we expect them to be part of the distro but as time goes by the distro will remove them so the game needs to constantly update or die" dependency hell. That might work for open source apps Firefox, VLC, etc, but many closed source older games that are long finished will not be updated (and often there's no-one around to update them, eg, developer went out of business / was acquired / even lost the source code (that's why there's no IceWind Dale 2 EE), etc). AppImage or something like that? I don't know, but there's got to be a better solution than current "break sh*t and shrug" situation.

clarry: Probably more ignorant than dumb. You need to obtain some basic troubleshooting skills if you want to install and run random third party software on Linux successfully. It's not plug and play and it's not going to be in a looong while, if ever.

Protip, *always* run from a terminal if something doesn't work, because that's where all the error output goes by default. Always search for whatever error message you get; chances are a million others ran into the same error and there's a solution out there one google search away. And if that doesn't help & you need to ask for help online, *always* post the terminal output along with your question. clarry: I don't like the way Ubuntu looks, but getting games running is usually not impossible, except for a few really broken games. Usually it's just a matter of hunting down some missing dependencies, not exactly rocket science.
clarry: No, if you can't work your way around basic errors with native executables, you won't have much luck with wine either. Some things work fine with wine ootb but a lot of things require tweaking configs, dlls, registry, or environment.

Maybe you'd have more luck with the playonlinux scripts or something. Lutris? I don't know, I don't use those things myself, but I know there are people out there trying to make it "easy".

Personally I think the payoff is greater if you just take the time to figure stuff out and then you'll be able to help yourself instead of waiting for someone else to fix whatever issue you bump into next.

TheNamelessOne_PL: Do you think I should ditch Linux?

TheNamelessOne_PL: Do you think I should ditch Linux?

Darvond: Nah, I'd suggest a more upstream distro; if you really do feel stuck with Ubuntu. And remember, you don't need to install a new distro just to try a different desktop.

Darvond: Nah, I'd suggest a more upstream distro; if you really do feel stuck with Ubuntu. And remember, you don't need to install a new distro just to try a different desktop.