My wife has a windows 10 laptop that works very well (hardware). However it seems that it won’t support win11. Rather than trying to tinker and make it install Win11 without the TPM support, etc., I want to install Linux Mint.
There are three games she adores and wants them to work if I installed Linux:
- Grandia 2 installed via Steam. Will proton support it?
- Sims 3 installed via Steam. Willnproton support this as well?
- Cesar 3 (which runs in a Win7 VM in windows setup by her tech savy friend). She has those files and the exe files etc. Can that be run on Linux? I’m reading about DOSBox, but not sure if that is the right tool.
I can rip out windows and go full Linux on her machine if there is support for running these three games. Any chance for me on this?
You can use protondb.com to look up those games to see if they work using Steam’s Proton compatibility layer.
The Sims 3 worked for me but just make sure it’s installed on the same drive as Steam or it may not work properly. The launcher sometimes didn’t work either but there are workarounds for that.
I learned the hard way that Linux doesn’t always play nice with NTFS formatted drives if you’re dual booting, even if it can read them. Just make sure the game is installed on a Linux friendly format drive like ext4 or Btrfs if you want to avoid most issues. Mint usually defaults to ext4.
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Looks like your wife is lucky.
https://www.protondb.com/app/1034860/ https://www.protondb.com/app/47890/ https://github.com/bvschaik/juliusFor Ceasar 3, there’s no reason to run via VM or dosbox, vanilla save compatible Julius (https://github.com/bvschaik/julius) and way less vanilla Augustus (https://github.com/Keriew/augustus) both work perfectly on linux (and windows too, Julius and Augusts are cross-platform).
Julius is in Debian repos (https://packages.debian.org/trixie/julius) so perfect for Mint while Julius is in the Debian repos but only for at least Debian Unstable (thus won’t be available for installation via apt on mint, I don’t believe, but you can easily build it, use an appimage or a flatpak).
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Haven’t played the other 2 games, but sims 3 definitely works from my own experience.
+1 for me
What gpu does the laptop have? That is very important. Many games run well on AMD graphics but nvidia often can be problematic.
if you keep the windows, rufus.ie eliminates all the ‘tinkering’. it can do the download, it can modify the installer to bypass hw requirements, it makes the usb. but don’t boot that usb for an ‘upgrade’–just run the setup off the usb while in win10. as always, backup anything ‘important’ beforehand.
If it works under windows and you wanna keep it the easiest way to use it is massgrave.dev
Ofc im all for the move to linux but still, its not a crime to want to keep the old
Sims 4 works fine on Steam. Not tried Sims 3.
