So when I first installed Linux, I had the Q4wine program on, and I'd install games. And with the q4wine program they'd work fine. It worked every time. I had lutris on also but for some reason q4wine worked best and easiest. I'd just right click on the game file icon, and tell it to run on q4wine. Easily it would start up. I also have playonlinux on and steam. But it always worked best with q4wine.
(Also the help forums and youtube videos on linux are very often confusing because they don't quote which wine program people are using. There's like half a dozen different wine programs with different endings or whatever... but that's a side note.)
Anyway, after trying to figure out how to use Lutris a bit more and after installing a couple more games on steam,....Suddenly NONE of the programs work to emulate windows games on. It worked perfect before, now it doesn't work at all on any of them.
I don't understand why, or what I should do to go about fixing this? In theory, they should work still. And I'm wondering if the new updates to the OS somehow broke this? This I wondered because I was using a text to speech program for word processing to read aloud also, and its not working now after these updates also to... well I mean it works but now it sounds messed up when it tries to read aloud; its like it does work but now sounds like its on an acid trip or something...
And right now I'm using LInux Mint Cinnamon... this seemed like it was SUPPOSED to be the easiest version of Linux to use. But now I'm not so sure. I really don't like that nothing works. Is there a different Linux OS that is more able to play games easier? My focus isn't actually on gaming. I like word processing and publication kinds of programs more. But its pretty darn frustrating to not be able to relax at the end of the game and plug in an old game just for an hour.
I should also say I'm a beginner to Linux, so if you reply I'll get lost if you don't put in some kinds of layman's terms. Thanks.
(Also the help forums and youtube videos on linux are very often confusing because they don't quote which wine program people are using. There's like half a dozen different wine programs with different endings or whatever... but that's a side note.)
Anyway, after trying to figure out how to use Lutris a bit more and after installing a couple more games on steam,....Suddenly NONE of the programs work to emulate windows games on. It worked perfect before, now it doesn't work at all on any of them.
I don't understand why, or what I should do to go about fixing this? In theory, they should work still. And I'm wondering if the new updates to the OS somehow broke this? This I wondered because I was using a text to speech program for word processing to read aloud also, and its not working now after these updates also to... well I mean it works but now it sounds messed up when it tries to read aloud; its like it does work but now sounds like its on an acid trip or something...
And right now I'm using LInux Mint Cinnamon... this seemed like it was SUPPOSED to be the easiest version of Linux to use. But now I'm not so sure. I really don't like that nothing works. Is there a different Linux OS that is more able to play games easier? My focus isn't actually on gaming. I like word processing and publication kinds of programs more. But its pretty darn frustrating to not be able to relax at the end of the game and plug in an old game just for an hour.
I should also say I'm a beginner to Linux, so if you reply I'll get lost if you don't put in some kinds of layman's terms. Thanks.