Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: De1m0sTo become a real alternative to windows, there must change a lot of things in linux.
I'm linux-user since 2 years, and i'm still wondering some times, how software is released. Often, you can't simpy download anything and install; no, you should compile that dumb shit before you can install and use it. This is something, you can't sell to any "normal"-pc-user, and this is something, that let other people say, linux is for freaks only.

Just to amplify a bit on what others are saying, every Linux distribution with pretensions to user friendliness has a little graphical application called "Software manager" or something which will install anything in the distribution's repository. And if yours has no such pretensions, you can generally install "Synaptic" which does more or less the same thing. So you don't even need to learn to use the package management (like apt or rpm or whatever), you just browse around the categories or type the name of something you want, then click on a button saying "install" and the thingie installs. Windows is way harder. Don't really know the Mac situation.

It's not that easy. Many things aren't available over the software manager.
I'm a "new" linux user; used windows since Win95. I really like linux.

The story so far (my linux-problems at the moment):
i like playing games, like all of us. We weren't here if we don't.
But, my xbox360 controller does not work with newest games. This circumstance is known well, but hard to explain to all the "normal"-pc-users. They want to plug in that thing, and play.
So, after lots of fails, i decided to try the "koku-xinput". But this is only available as source code you have to compile. So, i downloaded and tried to compile. Nothing, cmake is not installed. So i installed cmake. Second try: error-message, some kind of SDL2 library missing. Opened the software-manager, type in "SDL2", an get about 20 results. ?? Which one do i need?? Get the first one. Press "install", and got a message, that a lot of libs will be removed, if i install that library. This was the part, where i gave up.

And this is the part, where i can understand, that for this time now, linux is not for the common people.

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To become a real alternative to windows, there must change a lot of things in linux.
I'm linux-user since 2 years, and i'm still wondering some times, how software is released. Often, you can't simpy download anything and install; no, you should compile that dumb shit before you can install and use it. This is something, you can't sell to any "normal"-pc-user, and this is something, that let other people say, linux is for freaks only.

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Quoting: goldenkSo has anyone tried Dark Souls 3? I don't use WINE but If DS3 works I might.

No, it doesn't. Even does not RE7.

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How can i install 64bit-version of wine-staging?

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-staging

...will install only the 32bit-version. ???

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When will the precompiled version be online??
This is 2.12staging; in PlayOnLinux is the last available version for 64bit 2.10 staging!

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Did anyone tried DarkSouls3 with success?
I can start the game, but on playing, i only see the mini menu, and the bars for live and endurance. Character an the world around are completely black.
Disabled all visual things like anti-alias and so on.

LinuxMint 17.3, Geforce 970 with driver 370 (tried 350 also).

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