I have three monitors and a NVIDIA GPU. I've only been able to get them to work properly on Wayland.

But if the GNU Project created an OS based on SerenityOS, would it be GNU/Serenity? 🤔

If you want to play visual novels, you should watch out for games encumbered by DRM.

It's possible to play non-Steam games without Lutris, Bottles, or Heroic Games Launcher, though it's a little more annoying. The easiest way to install DXVK in a Wineprefix is using Winetricks. Just run WINEPREFIX=~/.local/share/wineprefixes/name winetricks dxvk.

The problem is Winetricks doesn't support updating DXVK. Lutris makes managing DXVK a lot easier; you can turn it on or off and it will update DXVK and other compatibility components automatically.

Vulkan support is of course required for DXVK to work, but DXVK isn't your only option for Direct3D translation. You can also use Wine's OpenGL translation layer, WineD3D, which requires no setup. The downside is that WineD3D's compatibility and performance is generally not as good as DXVK for the same versions of the Direct3D APIs. However, if your GPU doesn't support Vulkan, then you need to use WineD3D.

On the other hand, if your GPU does support Vulkan, Lutris' documentation provides a good place to start on installing Vulkan support for your distribution: https://github.com/lutris/docs/blob/master/InstallingDrivers.md

I wrote a guide explaining how the various components of Wine work to make games compatible. That might help you understand what exactly you need to do if you're not using a Wine manager. And, if you want to make things easier when working in the terminal, you can try these Quick-Access Shell Functions the Winetricks wiki provides.

I'm surprised they're not just using Common Crawl.

I'm afraid I couldn't say. I left iOS shortly after finding this app.

so I’m not sure if youre able to export your seeds

You aren't. It's a nice enough app, though. If you want to export the seeds, there's this app: https://github.com/mattrubin/Authenticator

Most of these games are installed in my ~/games/VNs folder, but Higurashi is in a Wineprefix. These games were installed long ago, and some of them don't even have methods of installation. Since you gave me the idea, I installed Flatseal and gave Bottles free reign on "All user files (filesystem=home)", which it didn't have, but that didn't help. I'm very much not an expert on Flatpak, so it's possible I missed something basic. Lutris on Linux Mint worked perfectly fine with Sono Hana 1, so I don't know what's different about Bottles.

Edit: I copied Sono Hana 1 to ~/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles/runner-dir/drive_c/Program Files/その花びら1 and it worked! In the end, it was something basic. I think I'm going to break the sandbox though because I don't want to move all my games there: https://docs.usebottles.com/flatpak/expose-directories/use-system-home

Here are some other VNs:

• I tried Dracu-Riot and don't even get a window:

002c:err:wineboot:process_run_key Error running cmd L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winemenubuilder.exe -r" (126).

• I tried Hatsuyuki Sakura and got an odd one complaining about not being able to find Startmenu.exe:

StartMenu.exeが見つかりませんでした。

• I tried Suteki na Kanojo no Tsukurikata, which gives me this:

00c4:err:module:import_dll Library UnityPlayer.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\run\\user\\1000\\doc\\2bcd2b83\\Sutekina_kanojo_no_tsukurikata.exe") not found
00c4:err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Importing dlls for L"Z:\\run\\user\\1000\\doc\\2bcd2b83\\Sutekina_kanojo_no_tsukurikata.exe" failed, status c0000135

• I tried Amrilato, which tells me it can't find the game executable and gives me this:

002c:err:wineboot:process_run_key Error running cmd L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winemenubuilder.exe -r" (126).
Failed to launch. Arguments are:
0 "Z:\\run\\user\\1000\\doc\\4b6a94df\\lib\\windows-i686\\TheExpressionAmrilato
.exe"
1 NULL
2 NULL
3 NULL

• I tried Higurashi Meakashi, which gives me this even though there is a data folder named this:

002c:err:wineboot:process_run_key Error running cmd L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winemenubuilder.exe -r" (126).
There should be 'HigurashiEp05_Data'
folder next to the executable

And it continues on in this fashion. I'm using sys-wine-8.0, but switching to soda-7.0-7 gives me identical results. It seems something is fundamentally broken in the install, but I don't see how that could be given I installed it via Flatpak.

GNOME Boxes is actually simpler than Virtualbox, in my opinion, with all the options you'll need. It even lets you install a variety of ISOs straight from the interface, without needing to go out to the web. Of course, if you're installing Windows, you need to supply your own ISO file.

Virt-Manager can be unintuitive but it's plenty capable.

I used ranger previously, but I'm an lf convert. It was a bit difficult to set some things up, but it's blazing fast and there are things about it I prefer.

As an Arch user for 3 years, I can corroborate this. Steam recently broke because a shared library updated, so I had to downgrade it. There was that whole pipewire nonsense before that. It only happens every few months, but it's annoying when it does. And some packages aren't as up-to-date as I would like, so OpenSUSE Tumbleweed or Fedora are looking like attractive options to me in the near future.

Yes, I like the default workflow. I always have particular applications on the same workspaces, and I close them as I need to. Sometimes I have multiple, usually a maximum of two on one workspace, because I can ALT+TAB through them. I like that the top bar is uncluttered. I don't use the dock at all, but Activity Overview is sometimes useful. I can operate the desktop completely with my keyboard. It's also very minimal without too many options, and it looks pretty. I find it very usable.

The only annoying thing was needing to manually create shortcuts inside of dconf for workspaces 5-10. I really don't know why they force you to do that...