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If there was ever a title which needed a native Linux build, this is it. ProtonDB does not list compatibility yet, have any of you tried?

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Official word on Linux and Mac support is soonish [1]. They didn't have any experience with packaging on those systems, which seems like a totally fair prioritization to me.

I was personally able to download on Linux (Pop!OS) and run it without enabling proton experimental or installing anything else. Worldbuilding didn't seem noticably longer than classic.

[1] https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/11/dwarf-fortress-release...

Works fine w/ steam and "Proton Experimental" under "Linux 5.10.154-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Nov 10 20:51:28 UTC 2022 x86_64 GNU/Linux". I had to install the package "sdl_ttf" though; without it, the game just hung at the inital screen that says "Loading".

If this update is like the old version, it has bundled dependencies on glibc and SDL 1.2. You can overwrite the outdated glibc libraries with symlinks to the system glibc. SDL, SDL_image, and SDL_ttf can be relinked to sdl12-compat, which implements the SDL1.2 ABI using the maintained SDL2 libraries. (edit: I forgot this is a Windows-only release, so maybe disregard this.)

The game worked perfect for me on Proton Next (7.0-5). Manjaro Linux x86 (5.15), Nvidia GPU, Intel CPU, x11 (I do not think I have `sdl_ttf` installed though I might be wrong.)

Works flawless for me using proton experimental (didn't try other versions). I wouldn't hesitate to buy it at this point, has platinum rating on ProtonDB.

Wow, from "Not Enough Info" to "Platinum" over the course of three hours. Nice!

Proton fails to launch. I was able to get it running in Lutris with the caffe runner in a couple minutes though.

Thanks! I'll look into Lutris.

It's a bit annoying to setup initially. Caffe is the default runner for Bottles and plays more games out of the box than any other runner I've tested. However I hate the Bottles interface so I downloaded the Caffe runner separately.

https://github.com/bottlesdevs/wine/releases/tag/caffe-7.20

Then you can drop that into the default folder in Lutris and choose it as the runner. Lutris also integrates with Steam so it'll see your entire steam library and you can choose a different wine runner and wine options on a per-game basis.

Works flawlessly on Ubuntu 22.04.

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