![]() ![]() More guides later on.Wonderful online archive UbuWeb, created in 1996 by conceptual artist, poet and theorist Kenneth Goldsmith (author of many books among which Duchamps is my lawyer), is a goldmine for avant-garde documents (experimental literature, film, and music). If you want to do even more stuff with your Linux to play games more easily, stay tuned. Here’s a screenshot of Gakthun running well on my brand-new virtual machine: You won’t be able to play Fallout 4 on the virtual machine or anything, but it’s great for lower-intensive games or 2D games. If you need Japanese locale, Windows 7 Ultimate should allow you to easily install Japanese language packs and set locale to Japan for some games.Īs an extra option: do install VMware tools for Windows as you will get better performance from your games with it installed as well as some ability to run programs that use 3D (although nothing too intensive). Then all you need to do now is run the virtual machine and install Windows 7 as if you were doing it on a real computer!įrom there, you should be able to run just about any Visual Novel with great compatibility. You shouldn’t have to decide what to select unless you prefer more space on the virtual machine. iso and it will tell you exactly what preferences you should choose for it. ![]() Once you open up VMware, you should be able to create a virtual machine for Windows 7. iso file (you may have to rip it yourself) and do make sure you have a windows 7 serial number! Now that we have VMware installed, you will want to look for a copy of Windows 7 圆4 Ultimate if you have one. Since your terminal is opened in the same location as the file that you downloaded, the command should execute and you should be able to install VMware easily. Replace -whatever-your-version-numbers-are with the exact numbers and make sure you type the filename as you see it. VMware-Player-whatever-your-version-numbers-are.x86_64.bundle Now type in the EXACT filename of your VMware file as well as the rest of this code: This is just in case sudo doesn’t work for you (and if that’s so, you should look into fixing that first before doing su, as it’s only a last resort). ![]() Just be careful when doing this, because su allows you to easily mess up your system if you don’t know what you’re doing. Without any other commands into the terminal and you should be able to execute any command from there on because now you have superuser privileges. If you are unable to install anything because you don’t have privileges, just type: Sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` Open up a terminal wherever you saved your VMware bundle to (this will save us a step later instead of opening another terminal process) and type this into terminal to download and install the headers: In order for you to run VMware, you need to install something called “Linux headers”, otherwise you won’t be able to even install it. bundle file which you’ll need to install using some terminal commands. It should be downloaded to your downloads and it will come as a. There is only an 圆4 version, so if you have an older computer you may not be able to use this method for running Visual Novels. I personally prefer Debian because it always seems to run well for me and the browser it comes with I greatly prefer to Firefox (Iceweasel).Īfter you’ve installed your distro on USB and installed it to your internal hard drive (or external, which is what I’ve got set-up since USB 3.0 works great so I can use it on other computers), you’ll need to start downloading a few things.įirst of all, get VMware Player for Linux off of the VMware website. For beginners, it seems like Linux Mint, Ubuntu, and Debian are good. There is one good and reliable way to play at least a good chunk of them on any modern Linux distribution, so long as your system can handle it.įirst, you’ll want to grab a Linux distro that you like. So far, I haven’t found good solutions for graphically intensive modern games that aren’t Linux native, but Visual Novels are another story. So I’ve been looking into methods for switching to Linux but still being able to enjoy all the games I play on Windows. For those who want to break free of Windows, it’s not always easy for those reasons. That includes many modern visual novels, which many not run on Linux. So Windows 7 Ultimate tends to me my platform for gaming. Some games work fine with Wine and PlayonLinux while other refuse to start or run slowly. I am not a fan of Windows, but like many people I begrudgingly use it because running games on Linux is a crapshoot. I was running into some issues with my Windows 7 installation and the blue screen of death started popping up on me. ![]()
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