wine-ge-custom vs nix-gaming

wine-ge-custom

My custom build of wine, made to use with lutris. Built with lutris's buildbot. (by GloriousEggroll)

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Gaming on Nix (by fufexan)

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wine-ge-custom		nix-gaming
	Project
483	Mentions	5
1,968	Stars	433
-	Growth	-
8.7	Activity	9.4
3 months ago	Latest Commit	4 days ago
Shell	Language	Nix
-	License	MIT License

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wine-ge-custom

Posts with mentions or reviews of wine-ge-custom. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-23.

Battle.net - can't log in
1 project | /r/linux_gaming | 8 Dec 2023

The only working fix for this at the moment is using GE-Wine 25 via Lutris.
Can Wine-GE play the ARR opening movie?
1 project | /r/ffxiv | 2 Nov 2023

I have FF14 working with WINE-GE 8-21 on Arch Linux. The only issue seems to be with video playback from ARR. The openings for Heavensward thru Endwalker all play OK.
Wine-GE-Proton8-17 Released
1 project | /r/linux_gaming | 26 Sep 2023
League of Legends freezing and crashing after every game.
1 project | /r/linux_gaming | 10 Aug 2023

I am using Lutris-GE-lol-p8-12, Arch Linux, Wayland, and a AMD CPU and GPU (Mesa).
FSR is back with the latest GE Wine/Proton release: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases
2 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 23 Jul 2023

This is big, at least for some of us. I honestly stopped at the last FSR enabled GE, which was around GE-Proton7-55, and planned to stay there for as long as possible. Don't know who Ph42oN is, but deserves tons of respect for make it again possible. Yes, gamescope was/is another way, but I very much prefer this one. https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases/tag/GE-Proton8-7 https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/wine-ge-custom/releases/tag/GE-Proton8-11
Did someone manage to run Google Chrome through Wine recently?
1 project | /r/linux4noobs | 17 Jul 2023

I installed Chrome using latest Wine-GE, but DRM is an issue now.
Problems with installing overwatch 2
1 project | /r/linux_gaming | 4 Jul 2023

Install lutris-GE-Proton8-8 and then just switch to 8-10 after installation. https://github.com/gloriouseggroll/wine-ge-custom/releases (extract it to ~/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine)
Help with running CoD Black Ops
1 project | /r/wine_gaming | 2 Jul 2023

Use last lutris-wine or latest Wine GE
Has anybody managed to get the 2006 abandonware game "You Are Empty" working on Linux through Wine?
1 project | /r/linux_gaming | 27 Jun 2023

I would try GloriousEgroll, I use their version of proton to help with a lot of games, I linked you to their WINE version.
Video Format games
1 project | /r/wine_gaming | 25 Jun 2023

There's one specifcally for Wine, too: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/wine-ge-custom

nix-gaming

Posts with mentions or reviews of nix-gaming. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-05.

Wine dependency issues
2 projects | /r/NixOS | 5 Oct 2022

Another question, I am using wine-tkg installed from nix-gaming. However, Lutris depends on and uses wine-staging. Is it possible to force Lutris to use wine-tkg instead?
NixOS gaming configuration
1 project | /r/NixOS | 6 Aug 2022

Take a look at this repo https://github.com/fufexan/nix-gaming
Currently trying to switch from Windows to Linux and struggling hard. Should I stick with it?
9 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 18 Jul 2022

I don't really play that much anymore nowadays, but I have the game installed from this Nix channel. If you know Nix or feel like figuring out how to it installed on your system (you can install Nix on any distro), you can try installing it from there :)
Is it possible to override the system Wine installation with a custom one?
3 projects | /r/NixOS | 27 Dec 2021

There's wine-tkg in https://github.com/fufexan/nix-gaming. Using the same derivation for that, one could build GE from source the same way.
How i install heroic-games-launcher on NixOS 21.05?
1 project | /r/NixOS | 22 Sep 2021

Right now Heroic isn't packaged, but legendary is. nix-gaming takes advantage of that and creates a basic install/launch script + desktop entry for RL, for convenience. Feel free to try!

What are some alternatives?

When comparing wine-ge-custom and nix-gaming you can also consider the following projects:

wine - Wine with a bit of extra spice

nixos-generators - Collection of image builders [maintainer=@Lassulus]

lutris - Lutris desktop client

arion-compose - Run docker-compose with help from Nix/NixOS

proton-ge-custom - Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components

nix-portable - Nix - Static, Permissionless, Installation-free, Pre-configured

wine-lol - Patched wine-staging with fix needed to run League Of Legends

ddcci-driver-linux

wine-staging - Staging repository for Wine; mirror of https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine-staging - Bugtracker and Patches: https://bugs.winehq.org/

wine-tkg-git - The wine-tkg build systems, to create custom Wine and Proton builds

Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]