Usually, my own thoughts are the only ones that matter to me. The exception is the rare occasion when I actually create a post or comment asking a question. That’s when I want to know about what you think. Otherwise, buzz off.
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Cake day: June 12th, 2023
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All you have to do to test this theory out is try a Grand Theft Auto game or just go for Halo. Classic bullshit signing up for shit, having to have a secondary launcher installed. blah blah blah, yadda fucking yadda. Take your friggin’ pick. Rockstar, Microsoft, and now Blizzard. Shit’s pretty much all bought up, doesn’t mean the companies don’t act like they always have with their brands.
I loved playing this game. I was always asking people to play it with me because I was a little kid. I’d be like, “Hi. Pleased to meet you. Can we play Mario arcade?” whenever someone new came to the house.
This means something that has been true since before OS X was invented (circa 1990-ish) that hasn’t changed. Wanna game on the puter? Mac ain’t it. Mac never been it. Apple actually provides hardware that is gaming able. They don’t want to cater to gamers. They could do this easily and sell so many heavy duty desktop towers now. Why won’t they? They’d have to UN-propriatary themselves.
but that’s awesome you figured it out and shared the solution here. There’s nothing about this out there that is searchable. Thanks for the learning lesson!
Yeah, the glaring “permissions denied” is right smack in the middle of all that. Then it just continues like that to the very end. One thing that makes no sense to me: manually changing the permissions on every single game. I’m a basic Linux boy and I do basic things, so don’t do what I’d do. What I’d try doing: changing the permissions in the .steam folder to the correct permissions, applying them to all the enclosed files and folders. I’d even have the stones to do it in the graphical UI left clicking on the .steam folder out of sheer basic laziness. My solution is totally basic and dumb, because it does not foresee new games being acquired through steam, which could revert back to the erroneous permissions. I searched for the error message to see what is relevant, nobody is reporting this problem, so, you’re unique. What a way to feel special, right? I’ll keep looking shit up like you’re doing. While we’re busy with that, someone more competent will come to your rescue, for sure.
If you could show an error message in the terminal either I or another person could help you. I’m guessing you’ve already searched the internet for a solution since you went through the painful process of re-installing the whole nine. What a marathon you’re running! Anyway, to run steam game in the terminal, you have to know the game id, which is a long number. If I’m correct (someone, if this is wrong, please correct me!), you would type something like this in the terminal: steam steam://rungameid/{YourGameID}
PlayOnLinux is not maintained consistently and hasn’t been for a couple of years. I have Diablo 2 on Lutris. It works great. However, I’m on Fedora 38, so there’s that. I don’t think that makes much of a difference, though. Your problem is probably related to PlayOnLinux being behind the times.
4·11 months ago
Yes. With VPN. And so many lessons learned after about how you didn’t have to do it, but you did it.