OS

My operating system of choice is Linux. That enables to configure most of an OS. Gentoo enables to disable most of the features that I do not need on my system.

I do not like Windows. Only part that it is good for is games. That is because of developers choices. But wine, dxvk, vkd3d started to change that. Now I play my games on linux.

General Purpose

$ # for coding
# emerge -av neovim helix
# emerge -av tmux
$ # for searching
# emerge -av ripgrep fd
$ # for wm
# emerge -av sway
$ # for media
# emerge -av mpv
$ # for web
# emerge -av librewolf
$ # for image processing
# emerge -av gimp
$ # for virtual machines
# emerge -av qemu
  

Gaming

I use sway with no xwayland. So this means that I am not using winex11.drv driver. I use winewayland.drv that is in development. It has couple of visual quirks like context menus in windows act like new windows. But it is not an issue.

$ # for nintendo games
# emerge -av =yuzu-9999
$ # for windows games
# emerge -av =wine-vanilla-9999 =dxvk =vkd3d-proton-9999
  

Setup

wine_setup.sh
#!/bin/sh

# your wine installation
export WINEPREFIX=/tmp/gaming/wine
export WINEFSYNC=1
export DOSDEVICE_Z="${WINEPREFIX%/*}"

export WINEHOME="$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/users/$USER"
export WINEAPPDATADIR="$WINEHOME/AppData/Local"

mkdir -p "$WINEPREFIX"
wine hostname

# dont access whole root system
rm -f "$WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/z:"
ln -sf "$DOSDEVICE_Z" "$WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/z:"

echo "PREFIX: $WINEPREFIX"
echo "FSYC:   $WINEFSYNC"
echo "dosdevices:"
echo "  z: $DOSDEVICE_Z"

# https://wiki.winehq.org/Useful_Registry_Keys
# HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Drivers\Graphics
#    Which graphic driver to use. (comma seperated)
#    mac:     Use the native quartz driver (default on macOS)
#    x11:     Use the X11 driver
#    wayland: Use the Wayland driver
#    null:    Use the null driver (a virtual screen will be created, but not displayed; available since Wine 5.2)
wine cmd /c "reg add HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Wine\\Drivers /v Graphics /t REG_SZ /d wayland /f" >/dev/null 2>&1

setup_dxvk.sh install
setup_vkd3d_proton.sh install
  

Launch Game

$ cd $DOSDEVICE_Z
$ wine game.exe