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How can I transfer non-steam games between Linux devices. (self.linux)

submitted 4 months ago by lambda to c/[email protected]

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I have a desktop and a steam deck. I would like to setup some old games I have on disc on the desktop. Then compress them and decompress on my Steam Deck without doing the full install again. I understand that with wine/proton prefixes they should be installed to a "fake c:/ windows hierarchy" can I just compress that and copy to a different Linux machine? Does it save which proton version was used? If I use something like Lutris or bottles can I import into them?

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[–] lambda 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Does it install winetricks and wine? Or is it up to you to install that? I believe the steam comes with it pre-installed though, so it''s probably not necessary.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Bottles has a wine manager that allows you to install various wine versions, and switch between them. You can also use the system installed version or even more versions installed by protonup-qt.

Winetricks is included.

[–] lambda 4 points 4 months ago

You have been beyond helpful. Thank you so much!