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I have a bottle of Gin in my fridge, anyone wants a shot?
Getting there slowly, one game at a time.
This is my little Wine/Lutris shelf right now, and everything you see here works.
Code of Honor 2: Conspiracy Island from disk works.
Conflict: Desert Storm 2 from disk works.
Delta Force: Black Hawk Down from disk works.
Dungeon Keeper Gold from GOG works, and I also installed KeeperFX.
Of Orcs and Men from disk works.
StarCraft from disk works.
StarCraft with cnc-ddraw works.
Epic Games Store works in Wine.
TextAloud 3 works in Wine.
Winamp works in Wine.
I have even live streamed most of them for about an hour each just to prove they are not only launching, but actually playable. The only one I have not streamed this time around is Dungeon Keeper, because I just installed it again, but I do have an old stream from the last time I played it.
It has not all been plug and play. Some of the old games have needed the usual Linux/Wine fighting: DXVK off, MangoHud off, old resolution handling, Wine virtual desktop, sound fixes, old installers, broken online registration junk, dead services, and all the other classic old PC game nonsense. But that is also kind of the fun part for me. I grew up with PC games on disk, and I like getting them running again instead of just letting them sit on a shelf doing nothing.
My plan is to slowly build up a proper old-game setup on Linux with as many of the games I played through the years as I can get working. I also want to install all the physical disk games I still own. If I fall over more old PC games at a price I actually want to pay, I may pick them up too.
I am not trying to make the cleanest or most modern setup. I am trying to rebuild my own old PC gaming history, but running on Linux.
One game at a time.
This is my little Wine/Lutris shelf right now, and everything you see here works.
Code of Honor 2: Conspiracy Island from disk works.
Conflict: Desert Storm 2 from disk works.
Delta Force: Black Hawk Down from disk works.
Dungeon Keeper Gold from GOG works, and I also installed KeeperFX.
Of Orcs and Men from disk works.
StarCraft from disk works.
StarCraft with cnc-ddraw works.
Epic Games Store works in Wine.
TextAloud 3 works in Wine.
Winamp works in Wine.
I have even live streamed most of them for about an hour each just to prove they are not only launching, but actually playable. The only one I have not streamed this time around is Dungeon Keeper, because I just installed it again, but I do have an old stream from the last time I played it.
It has not all been plug and play. Some of the old games have needed the usual Linux/Wine fighting: DXVK off, MangoHud off, old resolution handling, Wine virtual desktop, sound fixes, old installers, broken online registration junk, dead services, and all the other classic old PC game nonsense. But that is also kind of the fun part for me. I grew up with PC games on disk, and I like getting them running again instead of just letting them sit on a shelf doing nothing.
My plan is to slowly build up a proper old-game setup on Linux with as many of the games I played through the years as I can get working. I also want to install all the physical disk games I still own. If I fall over more old PC games at a price I actually want to pay, I may pick them up too.
I am not trying to make the cleanest or most modern setup. I am trying to rebuild my own old PC gaming history, but running on Linux.
One game at a time.
Old PC game installer tries to speedrun contract law
So I was installing Code of Honor 2 in Wine, and the installer does something I have to laugh at.
On the first setup screen there is an option called:
Express Install
Sounds normal enough, right? Just a quick install option.
But under it, the installer says:
And the best part?
It is ticked by default.
So according to this installer, I did not click “I accept the license agreement.” I did not get a proper license screen. I did not actively agree to anything. The installer just put a default tick in a box called “Express Install” and then said, “Congratulations, you agreed.”
That is not consent. That is the installer doing legal parkour.
There is a reason most companies use wording like:
or make you press an actual I Agree button.
They do that because it is much cleaner legally. The user can see that they are accepting a license, and the company can later say, “You clicked accept.” It is not hidden inside some default install option that most people would understand as “install this faster.”
If companies could safely get away with “we pre-ticked a setup option, therefore you accepted the contract,” far more of them would do it. They love removing friction when it benefits them.
But this one is just funny.
Express Install: installs the game faster.
Also Express Install: apparently makes me sign a legal agreement by existing near the Next button.
Old PC gaming really had everything:
bad DRM, weird installers, questionable DirectX errors, and now legally ambitious checkboxes.
So I was installing Code of Honor 2 in Wine, and the installer does something I have to laugh at.
On the first setup screen there is an option called:
Express Install
Sounds normal enough, right? Just a quick install option.
But under it, the installer says:
And the best part?
It is ticked by default.
So according to this installer, I did not click “I accept the license agreement.” I did not get a proper license screen. I did not actively agree to anything. The installer just put a default tick in a box called “Express Install” and then said, “Congratulations, you agreed.”
That is not consent. That is the installer doing legal parkour.
There is a reason most companies use wording like:
or make you press an actual I Agree button.
They do that because it is much cleaner legally. The user can see that they are accepting a license, and the company can later say, “You clicked accept.” It is not hidden inside some default install option that most people would understand as “install this faster.”
If companies could safely get away with “we pre-ticked a setup option, therefore you accepted the contract,” far more of them would do it. They love removing friction when it benefits them.
But this one is just funny.
Express Install: installs the game faster.
Also Express Install: apparently makes me sign a legal agreement by existing near the Next button.
Old PC gaming really had everything:
bad DRM, weird installers, questionable DirectX errors, and now legally ambitious checkboxes.
ola
My first gameplay test had sound problems, because for some reason when I started streaming with OBS, the sound would mess up and just disappear.
So I finally set up my dedicated streaming PC, something I had not gotten around to doing before. That ended up taking about 4 hours, mostly because making a bootable Windows 10 USB from Linux turned into way more pain than it should have been. Ventoy gave me problems, the ISO/USB setup caused issues, and I ended up having to do it the manual way with the Windows ISO, FAT32, and split install files before it would finally boot and install.
But I got Windows 10 installed, got the NVIDIA driver working, got the AVerMedia 4K PCIe capture card working, and got OBS running on the streaming PC.
I also had to clone the screen instead of using passthrough through the capture card. I think that is part of why things got a little messy, or maybe it is because I could only clone the screen properly on X11, at least with the method I know. For some reason X11 also gives me problems with fullscreen in some games. Some games just do not want to behave properly in fullscreen, and that is not something I want to fight with right now.
So for now I am just playing in windowed mode and letting the streaming PC handle OBS. It was annoying to set up, but it works.
So I finally set up my dedicated streaming PC, something I had not gotten around to doing before. That ended up taking about 4 hours, mostly because making a bootable Windows 10 USB from Linux turned into way more pain than it should have been. Ventoy gave me problems, the ISO/USB setup caused issues, and I ended up having to do it the manual way with the Windows ISO, FAT32, and split install files before it would finally boot and install.
But I got Windows 10 installed, got the NVIDIA driver working, got the AVerMedia 4K PCIe capture card working, and got OBS running on the streaming PC.
I also had to clone the screen instead of using passthrough through the capture card. I think that is part of why things got a little messy, or maybe it is because I could only clone the screen properly on X11, at least with the method I know. For some reason X11 also gives me problems with fullscreen in some games. Some games just do not want to behave properly in fullscreen, and that is not something I want to fight with right now.
So for now I am just playing in windowed mode and letting the streaming PC handle OBS. It was annoying to set up, but it works.
Old multi-disc Windows games in Wine can still be a pain.
I was installing Conflict: Desert Storm II through Lutris/Wine from the original physical CDs. Disc 1 installed fine, but when the installer asked for Disc 2, Wine seemed to keep the optical drive busy. Because of that, Linux could not properly unmount/remount the drive in a way the installer would accept.
The system could see Disc 2, but the installer still refused to continue. The mount path also got messy, where it still looked like the old Disc 1 mount even though the label showed Disc 2.
Instead of fighting Wine and the physical CD drive, I worked around it by making an ISO of Disc 2 and mounting that manually. That way Wine could keep using what it thought was the same CD drive, but the content was actually Disc 2.
Basically:
1. Install from Disc 1.
2. When the installer asks for Disc 2, create/mount a Disc 2 ISO.
3. Point Wine/Lutris at the mounted ISO path.
4. Continue the installer.
It is one of those classic Linux/Wine moments where the game itself is not really the problem — the old installer and disc swapping are.
Still, I got around it. Physical old PC games can be annoying under Wine, but with Lutris, ISO mounting, and a bit of manual work, they can still be made to run.
I was installing Conflict: Desert Storm II through Lutris/Wine from the original physical CDs. Disc 1 installed fine, but when the installer asked for Disc 2, Wine seemed to keep the optical drive busy. Because of that, Linux could not properly unmount/remount the drive in a way the installer would accept.
The system could see Disc 2, but the installer still refused to continue. The mount path also got messy, where it still looked like the old Disc 1 mount even though the label showed Disc 2.
Instead of fighting Wine and the physical CD drive, I worked around it by making an ISO of Disc 2 and mounting that manually. That way Wine could keep using what it thought was the same CD drive, but the content was actually Disc 2.
Basically:
1. Install from Disc 1.
2. When the installer asks for Disc 2, create/mount a Disc 2 ISO.
3. Point Wine/Lutris at the mounted ISO path.
4. Continue the installer.
It is one of those classic Linux/Wine moments where the game itself is not really the problem — the old installer and disc swapping are.
Still, I got around it. Physical old PC games can be annoying under Wine, but with Lutris, ISO mounting, and a bit of manual work, they can still be made to run.
Running old programs through Lutris is honestly one of the reasons I still keep messing with Linux.
Some of my older programs still work fine, but only if I go back far enough in Wine.
That’s also why I’m using Wine 8 in Lutris for some of them.
A lot of the newer Wine setups moving over to WOW64 is not something I’m a fan of at all. I hate WOW64. For newer stuff it may be fine, but for old programs that already barely work, it just becomes one more thing that can break them.
So yeah, while others move forward, I’m over here dragging myself back to Wine 8 just to keep my old programs alive and running the way I want.
At the moment I’ve got stuff like TextAloud 3, Winamp, Epic Games Store, and Of Orcs and Men sitting in Lutris, and honestly it feels a bit stupid and a bit beautiful at the same time.
If it works, it works.
Sometimes Linux is not about using the newest thing.
Sometimes it’s about finding the one old setup that still does the job and refusing to let it die.
Some of my older programs still work fine, but only if I go back far enough in Wine.
That’s also why I’m using Wine 8 in Lutris for some of them.
A lot of the newer Wine setups moving over to WOW64 is not something I’m a fan of at all. I hate WOW64. For newer stuff it may be fine, but for old programs that already barely work, it just becomes one more thing that can break them.
So yeah, while others move forward, I’m over here dragging myself back to Wine 8 just to keep my old programs alive and running the way I want.
At the moment I’ve got stuff like TextAloud 3, Winamp, Epic Games Store, and Of Orcs and Men sitting in Lutris, and honestly it feels a bit stupid and a bit beautiful at the same time.
If it works, it works.
Sometimes Linux is not about using the newest thing.
Sometimes it’s about finding the one old setup that still does the job and refusing to let it die.
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When i was on vacation in my own contra i fall over Of Orcs and Men on original Disk never been a fan of games like this really but i don't mind try new kind of games so i installed it on wine and it worked.
I haven't forgotten about the full write up I'm planning on writing of the fresh installation of MX Linux 25. The screenshot's of Modicia O.S....still not installed. USB is ready to go tho:-
My flat is in a complete state of disarray: contractors are coming soon.
My flat is in a complete state of disarray: contractors are coming soon.
I'm a holder of two undergraduate degrees,former VP of my college fraternity.
(April 2026) Concerned about upcoming age verification regulations.
stardew valley took over my life, I'm 198 hours into game, have 1,2M gold however to buy the most expensive game items I need approx 26M, at which time the game should end. how many hours more huh..
Back on the surface for a while. Need to do some spring cleaning on it!
I decided to run a recent interaction between me and a couple of linux.org elders through AI for funzies and told it to provide me with an analysis of my behavior. I found it comedic and amusing.
"Final Thoughts
AlphaObeisance represents the exhausted mentor. He wants people to be better than they are. His "brutal" honesty is a reaction to a world where tech is increasingly a "black box" that users aren't allowed (or don't want) to open. He’s the kind of guy who will spend four hours fixing your broken GRUB bootloader, but he’ll call you an idiot every thirty minutes while he does it."
That is the most accurate personality analysis I've ever had baha! I just about bust a gut chuckling at this insight given the context of the conversation. I might add that while I might call you an idiot every 30 minutes while spending 4 hours fixing your GRUB bootloader; I'd so so with a wink and a chuckle.
"Final Thoughts
AlphaObeisance represents the exhausted mentor. He wants people to be better than they are. His "brutal" honesty is a reaction to a world where tech is increasingly a "black box" that users aren't allowed (or don't want) to open. He’s the kind of guy who will spend four hours fixing your broken GRUB bootloader, but he’ll call you an idiot every thirty minutes while he does it."
That is the most accurate personality analysis I've ever had baha! I just about bust a gut chuckling at this insight given the context of the conversation. I might add that while I might call you an idiot every 30 minutes while spending 4 hours fixing your GRUB bootloader; I'd so so with a wink and a chuckle.
Took quite a long hiatus from the forums. It's been quite a time and I return with some neat updates for Home-labbers. Super glad to see a dedicated section for HomeLab! No doubt I'll be adding that one to my shortcuts. Will post soon with an update.
Good to see familiar faces!
Good to see familiar faces!
Hey everyone 
just wanted to share something i've been working on — it's called ProjectPulseWire, a Python tool that brings premium EasyEffects presets to Linux.
basically if you're on PipeWire or PulseAudio and always felt like your audio could sound WAY better, this is for you. it comes with 47 EQ presets (bass, genre, voice, brand, dynamics) and 404 IRS files including Dolby and DFX profiles — all installable with one command.
just run: pip install projectpulsewire and then python -m projectpulsewire start
you get an interactive menu to browse, preview and install presets. it also auto-sets up your full audio stack (PipeWire + EasyEffects + plugins) on Ubuntu, Fedora, or Arch if you haven't already.
GitHub - ProjectPulsewire
PyPi - ProjectPulsewire
would love any feedback from fellow Linux users, especially if you test it out!
just wanted to share something i've been working on — it's called ProjectPulseWire, a Python tool that brings premium EasyEffects presets to Linux.basically if you're on PipeWire or PulseAudio and always felt like your audio could sound WAY better, this is for you. it comes with 47 EQ presets (bass, genre, voice, brand, dynamics) and 404 IRS files including Dolby and DFX profiles — all installable with one command.
just run: pip install projectpulsewire and then python -m projectpulsewire start
you get an interactive menu to browse, preview and install presets. it also auto-sets up your full audio stack (PipeWire + EasyEffects + plugins) on Ubuntu, Fedora, or Arch if you haven't already.
GitHub - ProjectPulsewire
PyPi - ProjectPulsewire
would love any feedback from fellow Linux users, especially if you test it out!
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appsy marcelstevano appsy wrote on marcelstevano's profile.
Over on another forum (that should remain nameless!) you were able to solve a problem that I was having with a TPLink T6E not being recognised by ubuntu 24.04 lts. Since then, ubuntu crashed overnight ,which I think may have been caused by an update of some kind. After much research and input from that nameless forum, ubuntu could not be fixed and I had to do a clean reinstall of ubuntu. This resulted in the T6E being unrecognisable again! I tried running your original commands but they don't work now. I have followed all advice given by others with no success. Do you have any suggestions, please?