polychromatic VS POL-POM-4

For openrazer to function easily, you need additional software. I’ve used Polychromatic.

I'm trying to install OpenRazer to utilize Polychromatic and come into a problem that says:

{ lib , fetchFromGitHub , bash , glib , gdk-pixbuf , gettext , imagemagick , ninja , meson , sassc , python3Packages , gobject-introspection , wrapGAppsHook , libappindicator-gtk3 , libxcb , qt5 , ibus , usbutils }: python3Packages.buildPythonApplication rec { name = "polychromatic"; version = "0.8.0"; format = "other"; src = fetchFromGitHub { owner = "polychromatic"; repo = "polychromatic"; rev = "v${version}"; #sha256 = "sha256-H++kQ3Fxw56avEsSE1ctu5p0s50s0eQ+jL5zXS3AA94="; sha256 = "sha256-ym2pcGUWM5zCUx/lYs+WECj+wbyBtWnx04W/NRXNKlw="; }; postPatch = '' patchShebangs scripts substituteInPlace scripts/build-styles.sh \ --replace '$(which sassc 2>/dev/null)' '${sassc}/bin/sassc' \ --replace '$(which sass 2>/dev/null)' '${sassc}/bin/sass' substituteInPlace pylib/common.py \ --replace "/usr/share/polychromatic" "$out/share/polychromatic" ''; preConfigure = '' scripts/build-styles.sh ''; propagatedBuildInputs = with python3Packages; [ colorama colour openrazer pyqt5 pyqtwebengine requests setproctitle libxcb openrazer-daemon libappindicator-gtk3 ibus usbutils ]; nativeBuildInputs = with python3Packages; [ gettext gobject-introspection meson ninja sassc wrapGAppsHook qt5.wrapQtAppsHook ]; dontWrapGapps = true; dontWrapQtApps = true; makeWrapperArgs = [ "\${gappsWrapperArgs[@]}" "\${qtWrapperArgs[@]}" ]; meta = with lib; { homepage = "https://polychromatic.app/"; description = "Graphical front-end and tray applet for configuring Razer peripherals on GNU/Linux."; longDescription = '' Polychromatic is a frontend for OpenRazer that enables Razer devices to control lighting effects and more on GNU/Linux. ''; license = licenses.gpl3; platforms = platforms.linux; maintainers = with maintainers; [ evanjs ]; }; }

Install frontend : https://polychromatic.app

I've tried multiple different brands of keyboards and mice and all of them worked well with Linux, often even if Linux wasn't advertised on the box (I wouldn't bet on that though). More well known brands have better support e.g. Razer has OpenRazer and Polychromatic

I re-installed open-razer on Ubuntu and also installed Polychromatic.

The irony is that razer has some of the best software as long as you are not using windows. The community maintained openrazer drivers on Linux work great. https://polychromatic.app/

Should the website www.playonlinux.com indicate the situation more clearly too? Any clarification? What do you think of this "mess"?

I noticed the Call of Duty series on Steam, so I expect most or all of them will play perfectly fine on Linux Mint in Steam. If you want to play Windows games outside of Steam, there are apps like Lutris and PlayOnLinux that make running Windows games on Linux pretty easy. https://lutris.net/ https://www.playonlinux.com/ https://www.protondb.com/search?q=call%20of%20duty

If you will to run a game with Wine, use the release version. You can also use PlayOnLinux (I feel old mentioning this), Lutris, and Bottles (this new one I didn't tested yet).

So, I don't use WINE directly. Instead, I use PlayOnLinux, which hides most of the complexity for you. It handles all the WINE stuff on your behalf. It looks like you're using Ubuntu (please remember to include your Linux version in future!), so you can install PlayOnLinux from the standard repositories.

I believe POL is basically dead, see the repo here: https://github.com/PlayOnLinux/POL-POM-4/commits/master where there were only 10 commits over the last 2 years.

https://www.playonlinux.com/ is a good resource to get Windows Apps up and running easily and has a compatibility list of most software

There are also GUI front-ends for WINE. PlayOnLinux has been around for a long time, and Bottles has recently come on the scene. I don't know how to use WINE, but I can use it because of those two apps.

If you want to know if a game is playable or not and it doesn't have a linux version, then the best way I know of is looking it up on lutris. You can't look on protondb, because it's only for Steam games. You can also look on wine and playonlinux, but they usually aren't as exhaustive as lutris.

I find WINE quite complicated to use, so I use PlayOnLinux, which is a front-end for WINE. Unless you need expert mode, it's way easier to use PlayOnLinux than to have to fiddle with setting up an app directly with WINE.