wumgr VS lutris

List of softs I use : https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html BSV - it helps to see what happens in a minidump file https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/driverview.html driverview - helps you find any driver installed in your computer to see what’s linked to it https://learn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/windows-hardware/drivers/debugger/ WinDbg - Actually the mastermind in this process https://github.com/DavidXanatos/wumgr WuMgr - To disable windows automatic update when you DDU something or you uninstall any driver, which allows you to install the RIGHT driver you want without Windows telling you what you need. https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html DDU - helps you fully uninstall a driver, graphics or sound.

Do what I told you. Next when your laptop is on and rocking Go and download WuMgr it's a lightweight Windows Update and Driver Update Manager that is way more accurate than Windows Update, and let you disable Automatic Update. It is more than REQUIRED to disable it because it downloads without your permissions some bs drivers sometimes or unhelpful Windows updates.

I would suggest you to use WuMgr

this is what i use, makes it super simple and even when i did all the shenanigans with event viewer and group policy it still always seemed to reset at times on it's own... this works though https://github.com/DavidXanatos/wumgr

Use wumgr https://github.com/DavidXanatos/wumgr.

If you want even more control over Windows Updates I suggest you to use Update Manager for Windows by David Xanatos (https://github.com/DavidXanatos/wumgr).

The right place to get that wumgr software would be the repo of DavidXanatosa? Just checking because the last version (v1.1) is 4yo. https://github.com/DavidXanatos/wumgr

https://github.com/DavidXanatos/wumgr is what i use, you can actually disable/hide stuff the way you used to be able to without having to mess around with group policies that still seem to never work correctly or for some reason reset.

Interesting. I have Windows updates turned off, doing them periodically myself with wumgr, and my version of this file was already 1.1.20200.4. I last pulled updates about four months ago, so anything released March shouldn't have been on my system yet... D:

You can get Lutris: It's an open source launcher that you login into with GOG account and it will download the games and wrap them with Wine, similar to Steam.

https://lutris.net/

For "normal" games you could look yourself using ProtonDB regarding every game released on Steam and AreWeAntiCheatYet for most multiplayer games. If a game isn't available on Steam you have three possibilities. First if it's available on GOG, Epic Games or Amazon Gaming, you could use the Heroic Games Launcher. Second you could try to run the launchers through Steam itself using once again Proton. Third you could try installing it with a script or tutorial in Lutris or Bottles.

Can I suggest you head over to the lutris.net site and follow the link the lutris discord - with what you are describing, it would take me 20 minutes to get the base battle.net working so you can see what is causing your issue or 3 days back and forwards here. As a hint, your wine version has known issues, and unless you manually installed the lutris 0.5.14 from the git page in Mint, or are running flatpak, you have other issues related to that

Hmmm I remember there was some confusion in Lutris around this, like https://github.com/lutris/lutris/issues/4237 , and I had to do some workaround. But I can't check what exactly right now...

As a data point, you can run a fair number of Windows games under Proton by using Lutris instead of Steam:

* https://lutris.net

* https://github.com/lutris/lutris

It's an OSS game launcher that takes the place of Steam, and you can set things up to run locally so you don't even need an account on their system (lutris.net).

Lutris

[Resources] * Ventoy (for EZ bootable USB sticks) ==> https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html * How to use Ventoy ==> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K64sT0pQc-0 * Rufus (alternative bootable USB stick creator in Windows) ==> https://rufus.ie/en/ * MD5 & SHA Checksum Utility (for validating your ISO downloads) ==> https://download.cnet.com/md5-sha-checksum-utility/3000-2092_4-10911445.html * Steam will be in the repositories (repos) and Proton is apart of Steam * www.protondb.com (lookup Steam game info... see how well it works or if it is in a FUBAR state on Linux) * WINE will be in the repos and can be acquired via WINE HQ. I recommend using the repos, but WINE HQ if you need it ( https://www.winehq.org/ ) * Lutris is a front-end to WINE which makes installing and running non-Steam games easy. It can be found in the repos ( https://lutris.net/ ) * How-To videos for setting up various distros for gaming ( https://www.youtube.com/@IntelligentGaming2020/videos ). I have no affiliation with this channel. He is a Linux user/gamer sharing info. Search his channel for your distro to find the specific how-to videos. * r/linux4noobs (a newbie focused Linux subreddit) * most if not all of the distros will have their own subreddits (ex: r/pop_OS, r/linuxmint, r/fedora, r/manjaro, r/EndeavourOS)

ProtonDB is a community list of Steam games rating their playability. Heroic launcher runs GOG and Epic games. Lutris and Bottles can be used to run everything else.