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For Steam Deck and AMD processors:

1. Run in terminal sudo nano /etc/default/grub Replace nano with the text editor you are using.
2. Find the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT
3. Add clearcpuid=514 inside the quotes.
4. Update the settings with sudo update-grub for Ubuntu/Mint and similar or sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg for Arch and the like.
5. Reboot the system.
6. Play!

Doing this helped me, running archlinux so i used systemd-boot instead of grub.

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No, bottles is just a program that enables you to use wine much more comfortably.

Wine isn't super hard to use, but it's annoying. So stuff like Bottles and Lutris exist, both basically do the same. They give you both a GUI and much easier accessable settings for the wine-prefixes. Those prefixes basically are just folders with the faked windows stuff in it.

Lutris is made for games but can be used for programs too. Bottles is made out of the box for both games and programs, has a much more streamlined interface and workflow and lets you easily create new "bottles" (bottle is just the given name for a wine prefix) for each of your games / programs.

Putting everything in their own bottle / prefix is really handy because it allows you to modify the prefix for each application without ruining it for another. If you need a specific version of a certain .dll file for one game but not for others, you can just install that .dll file in the specific bottle / prefix for that one specific game, and the other games just use their own bottles / prefixes with the default .dll for example.

Very handy.

Bottles is usually more recommended because it's more streamlined... Also the dev of lutris seems quite toxic and isn't good with making friends in the scene :D

I used bottles for a while, until it wiped basically all of my game data. Lutris is much better imo, use wine-ge and had zero issues

Yup. Like, I get what he's trying to do, if people don't need to extract the contents of the release they're more likely to keep sharing it. It would be reasonable if DwarFS was installed by default in most distros, Mint for example doesn't even have it in the repos*. Still, he shares a huge collection of games, so it's still worth to check if he has something you want.

*might be relevant for the OP. In Mint here's what I did: I downloaded DwarFS binaries and put them in some random dir (I'll call it /randomdir). Then I edited my .bashrc file and included the following lines:

undorf () {
	mkdir "$1".extracted
	/randomdir/bin/dwarfsextract -i "$1" -o "$1".extracted
	}

Then when I download his releases, I navigate to the dir where the dwarfs is, plop a terminal, and write undorf [filename]. Boom, extracted without too much fuss.